Re: 2.5 Translator, C Compilers Supported
- Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at yahoo.com> Nov 25, 2004
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Robert Craig wrote: > > ken Roger wrote: > > When I had a dial-up connection the small size of Lccwin32 was > > was important and its compilation speed has always been welcome. > > But it is free only for personal use--if you use it at work or > > sell programs compiled with it you are required to buy a > > professional version at 50 euros or so. > > > > If Rob wants to simplify the Windows distribution to include > > libraries only for Open Watcom 1.3+, I would have no objection. > > I seriously considered dropping support for Lcc, since > I support Watcom and Borland, and Lcc has bugs, > but I left it in since it doesn't really cost much to > keep it going. Maybe one day they'll get it working better. > I believe you can at least compile/run sanity.ex with it, > but larger Windows programs are likely to bomb due to > code generation bugs. > I translated my contest entry, and interestingly, it ran quite a bit (about 25%) faster when compiled with Borland than with Watcom. Matt Lewis