Re: Bitten by a bug
Robert Craig wrote:
>
> Brian Broker wrote:
> > Although I still haven't bothered with translating/compiling, I've never had
> > problems
> with the compiler offered</font></i>
> > by <a href="http://www.mingw.org/">http://www.mingw.org/</a> (experience
> > limited, but
> always without issue). I</font></i>
> > still don't understand why it's not supported. Could it possibly be too
> > much trouble?
> Can I assist you in testing</font></i>
> > it Robert?
>
> The Translator already supports 3 different Windows C compilers
> (not to mention 2 for DOS, and GCC for Linux and FreeBSD)
> I don't see much value in supporting a 4th compiler for Windows.
> Watcom and Borland are both very reliable compilers that
> produce fast machine code. Supporting an additional compiler
> takes a fair bit of work, both initially, and then later as
> people start reporting real or imagined compiler-specific bugs.
> And what do you gain? It just means those who already have the
> 4th compiler installed won't have to install one of the other 3.
>
> > If a Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator can be compiled using it, it can't be
> > all that bad, epecially speed-wise.
> >
> > I don't ask much and I offer assistance...
>
> I appreciate the offer, but I don't want to support
> another compiler for an already-supported platform,
> unless maybe it's Microsoft C/C++.
>
> Regards,
> Rob Craig
> Rapid Deployment Software
> <a href="http://www.RapidEuphoria.com">http://www.RapidEuphoria.com</a>
>
The only thing that I would add to this is that mingw is a win32 port of gcc so
it wouldn't *really* be like adding another compiler. It would just be making
sure that mingw worked with the translator. Doesn't the translator already work
with djgpp? I don't think that it would be that much more work.
I think it would be great to drop support for lcc and add support for Digital
Mars C compiler, but I know that probably *is* a lot more work.
j.
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