Re: Voting begins on removing OpenWatcom support
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Oct 22, 2012
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I have a problem running OpenWatcom.
I installed Eu4.0.5 on a netbook, N450, with Windows 7.
- eui sanity.ex works
- euc sanity.ex fails
euc sanity.ex
Build directory: ...
Translating code, pass: 1 ... 11 generating
Compiling with Watcom
Compiling 1% init-.c
Couldn't compile file 'init-.c'
Status: -1 Command: wcc386 /dEWINDOWS /bt=nt /mf /w0 /zq /j /zp4 /fp5 /fpi87 /5r /otimra /s /Ic:\Euphoria init-.c
- But, sanity.ex ran and compiled ok using Linux Eu4.0.5 and gcc.
If OpenWatcom does not work, then it should be dropped.
I think you may not have Watcom correctly installed / configured. I just tried 4.0.5 on Windows and interpreted and translated and compiled with Watcom, it passed.
If an easy to install C compiler is available for Windows users (and it is easy for developers to maintain) then that is the "best" choice.
The actual compiler choice should not matter.
I find Watcom to be generally easier to deal with on Windows (aside from 64-bits, of course). MinGW seems easiest to deal with IME under MSYS, but is slow as molasses. I often set up a Linux VM and cross compile. Mind you, this is when developing euphoria or wxEuphoria, both of which have a lot of compiling to do when I'm working on them.
Matt
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