OpenEuphoria

Re: when will the mingw be added to the official release?

• Posted by oyster <blender at eyou?c?m> Jan 12, 2008
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1. I use MingW because I can borrow books on gcc to help me from the library, on
the other hand I found no Watcom book here. In fact, I am using dev-cpp with
MingW, I think its IDE is more easier and user-friendly for a no-24-hours-a-day C
user than that in Watcom.
2. Konstantinos Tampouris said "Both compilers can target WinCE, so this support
brings Euphoria one step closer to targeting WinCE too" in his
post(http://www.rapideuphoria.com/lan.htm)
3. EUPHORIA\DOC\Library.doc says 
" If you use exw to call a cdecl C routine that returns a
  floating-point value, it might not work. This is because the
  Watcom C compiler (used to build exw) has a non-standard way of
  handling cdecl floating-point return values.
"  
4. even for the existing BCC/Watcom support in eu, I can't find a document on
"how to build eu system from the src". Let me explain it clear,
a)ok, I have downloaded and installed OpenWatcom
b)in H:\EUPHORIA\SOURCE\
"wmake -f makefile.wat interpreter=1" yields exwc.exe, that is ok
"wmake -f makefile.wat translator=1" says 
[says]
Unable to open 'ec.c'
Error(E42): Last command making (ec.obj) returned a bad status
Error(E02): Make execution terminated
[/says]
"wmake -f makefile.wat library" produces ecw.lib, it is ok
but what about other exe and lib? How to compile them?

Last, but not the least, I think "don't put the eggs in the same box" fits the
situation.
I must make it clear, I am not saying bad on the development of EU, because I
understand that the developers on EU is limited. If a product supports more
language, I think more users will come to use and improve it.

Regards.