As title please. Ive used Borland in the past but id like to know if i shoudl use Dev. Alot of the books ive used tend to mention this more than the borland one. so i was wondering if this is now better than borland? Any ideas
the borland one is notoriusly bug ridden, avoid it like the plauge. MSVC6 is probably the best one for windows platform.
MSVC6 and the complete Platform SDK is documented in EXTREME detail and accessible online for free at http://msdn.microsoft.com (just the documentation is free of course).
have any ofyou used DJGPP before ? i recently installed that but havent had a chance to use it yet. I agree that VC++ Is a seemingly good compiler, ive never had any problems with it before, except its bigness in size and in price! but it seems to work relatively well.
I've only used DJGPP for 32-bit DOS applications. Another choice is GCC via Cygwin... the bonus being it wouldn't taken much to be compatible with both *nix and Windows. It's a whole different dev. platform, though. I never really liked MFC anyway. If you want to be hardcore the Intel compilers really rock, nobody can touch their ability to optimize for Intel CPU's (for obvious reasons). They cost alot more than MSVC and I'm not even sure if they make Windows versions, though. Cheers!
MSVC6 licesnsed so much from intel labs optermizor, but remeber with optermizors its very dated (the whole P4 mk1, taking longer to barallel shift than multiply!!!).
