Re: Translating Euphoria Apps -- Which compiler do you use?
- Posted by robcraig Aug 19, 2008
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To help simplify the C code in Euphoria, we are thinking of dropping DJGPP, LCC and Borland and making Watcom the compiler for Windows and GCC the compiler for Unixes (as it currently is).
PLEASE don't tell me I'm the only LCC fan :(
You probably are, at least in the Euphoria world, among people who seriously use the EtoC Translator.
I would not shed any tears if LCC support were dropped. It's simply not "ready for prime time", and probably never will be. It's also redundant, since we have Windows support with WATCOM and Borland.
I like Borland. Very few bugs. It compiles like a bat out of hell compared to WATCOM, and the compiled code is about as good, sometimes better. It also compiles certain huge and complex programs that WATCOM can't handle, at least not without major, very difficult changes to the Translator. (Though I haven't tried the very latest release of WATCOM).
DJGPP is not nearly as nice as WATCOM for DOS, though it's also open source, and has some user base. Very few people are still using it, so I wouldn't care at all if DJGPP were dropped.
I'd really like to see support for Microsoft's C/C compilers. However I don't own any of them, and am not very familiar with them.
Rob
