Re: Euphoria++ + ++?
A better way to solve this whole 'supported compiler'
and 'porting Eu programs to oter platforms' crap is
this.
Simply ship the Win32 source for ecw.lib with ECW, but
write it so that it compiles with any Windows C
compiler (All you need is windows.h for
GetProcAddress() wich is the standard Win32 include
file)
Also ship the source to EC and ECL library, and that's
that.
We can;
A. Compile for with ANY C compiler for DOS32, Win32
and
Linux.
B. Port the runtime routines to other platforms, thus
porting our programs to other platforms.
You will automatically see a lot of EC(W/L).lib ports
to Mac, BeOS, Playstation, etc. One picks up, for
example, ECM.lib, wich is for Macintosh, and compiles
his Euphoria program with a Macintosh C compiler, and
it will run perfectly on the MAC.
People can speed up runtime routines, and even
hardware accelerate polygon() or pixel(), etc.
It would requrie not MORE work for Rob to do this, but
technically LESS work, since he don't have to compile
all the runtime libraries before shhipping them, he
ships the source (lol!).
I have lots of Windows program that compile with VC++,
LCCWin, MingW, Vector C and Cygnus C perfectly,
without any modifications. So should Euphoria
programs.
PLU, the library routines are actually OPTIMISED by
your compiler. If you own VC++6.0 (the fastest C
compiler out there) your Euphoria programs and library
routines will run faster.
If you want, you can even strip out runtime checks
from some library routines to make them faster, like
c_func() or pixel().
There's no limits to what you can do!
The *only* backdraws are the following;
- It will take longer to compile your programs, since
ecx.lib has to be compiled (wich is optional, btw, you
can always just link to the prebuilt libraries).
- You won't get an emake.bat file if you use, for
example, "Mike's Crappy C Compiler For Windows 2000"
or some shit to compile your source.
But that's optional since the translator supports the
compilers it supports now automatically, if you wanna
use some other compiler, that's your choice, but don't
bug RDS with it. Write your own goddamn bat file.
Mike The Spike
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