OpenEuphoria

Re: C compiler recommendations

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Mar 20, 2004
• 397 views

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:27:27 -0600, Allen Robnett
<alrobnett at alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:

>
>
>I am a high school teacher, not a programmer, but I was delighted to 
>find that, using Euphoria, I could create a special purpose editor for a 
>100MB binary tree data file with which I deal.
>
>The editor is less than 500 lines long. The most complicated thing it 
>does is finding powers of 2. The "includes" are: file.e, get.e, getch.e, 
>graphics.e, machine.e, dll.e.
>
>I want to be able to distribute the editing program (and data file) to 
>several people as a stand-alone executable program. I think I understand 
>that this means translating to C and compiling. I do not need a very 
>fancy compiler, but I do want one that is likely to need minimal 
>doctoring of the translated code (I am not a C programmer).
>
>Given the constraints, what is the best bang for the buck?
>
>Allen
With the ($29?) registered version of Euphoria, you can bind the
program to create a standalone executable. Translating to C is really
only for speed freaks and dll creation.

See C:\euphoria\doc\bind.doc

Regards,
Pete