OpenEuphoria

Re: translator/compiler

• Posted by Ray Smith <smithr at IX.NET.AU> Sep 13, 2000
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Hi There,

I don't have Watcom either and it looks like most people don't.

As far as I can see the alternatives are:

DOS32 - DJGPP (The only compiler worth looking at for DOS32 programs!)

WIN32 - Mingw (is very solid now with an email list support), LCC-Win32
(has always been great with newsgroup/email list support), MS Visual C++
(OK if you already have it but would you buy it specifically for compiling
Euphoria programs?) and the Borland free command line compiler BCC5.5 (A
very good compiler with newsgroup support)

My personal opinion would be to forget the MS compiler but beleive the
other 3 should be supported at "some" time.
If anyone of those 3 compilers where supported in the near future I can't
see how anyone could complain since they are all freely available.

Are there any other options?

Maybe anyone who is interested in using the translator should vote for
his/her prefered compiler, in a week or so we can lobby Rob to support that
compiler.

Ray Smith



On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:22:12 -0700, Matthew Lewis <MatthewL at KAPCOUSA.COM>
wrote:

>Bernie wrote:
>
>> ---
>>   Is anyone out there other than MTS using or having the
>> Watcom compiler.
>>
>>   I don't see any talk or excitement on the list about using it.
>>
>>   I guess that this is good evidence that the translator is not
>>   supporting the correct "C" compiler.
>>
>>   It appears that there are no users that have a Watcom.
>
>I agree.  I've played around with the translator, and looked at my code in
>C, but since I don't have Watcom... :(
>
>Rob, please try to release for another freely available compiler as soon as
>possible.  I'd love to plunk my money down--once I've actually tried it
out!
>
>Matt