Re: [Dev-C++] No Comparison: Dev C++ & Visual C++

[Yeoh H. <ye...@ye...>]

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From: Hongli Lai <h....@ch...>


> On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 09:31, Yeoh HS wrote:
> > For Dev-C++ to be useful, one needs to download other C or C++ library
> > packages.
> > Examples are:
> > 1. For GUI development, the best I've seen so far is wxWindows;
> > 2. For client-server database applications, one can use MySQL or
Interbase
> > or Firebird and related interface libs & headers.
> > 3. For embedded database applications, you can use SQLite.
> > 4. For graphics, OpenGL.
> > This is well and good but like most things, it is easier said than done.
> > Trying to get all the various packages to work together with Dev-C++  is
not
> > an easy task. However, I noted that over the past several years, more
C++
> > libraries are supporting MingW.
>
> I've created packages for WxWindows, FLTK and SDL, and they will be
> simultanously released with Dev-C++ beta 3.
> So installing WxWindows won't be a problem anymore. :-)
>
>
Great! I look forward to it. Thanks.

> And I think you really should not compare M$VC++, an expensive
> commercial Microsoft Windows-oriented development tool, with Dev-C++,
> written by some volunteers.
> I've never used MSVC++ so I don't even know what it offers.
>
You're right. The subject line above reveals my thoughts. :-)
If you're not into Windows development, you don't really need MSVC++.

Regards,
Yeoh
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