From:	Critofur <cmiller AT sgi DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	DJGPP -vs- Watcom?
Date:	Mon, 27 Jul 1998 23:38:25 -0400
Organization:	Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA
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Hello,
  I was hoping to use DJGPP & MGL to do some game development - once the
game was done I was planing on porting it to Win98/NT for greater
marketability/user base (I would perhaps still release a DOS/DJGPP
verision).  The reason I wanted to use MGL is because it is supposedly
availabel for both DOS and Win platforms.  I have had no luck get the
latest version (4.05) to work with DJGPP however, so I decided to
purchase the latest version of Watcom C (I don't like Microsoft
compilers).  I've since read on the SciTech MGL newserver that MGL is
not fulling working with DJ and the GUI library that goes along with it
(Mvis) is currently entirely incompatible.   I'm just looking for
comments/opinions/suggestions regarding advantadges of various
compilers/libraries including DJ, Watcom, Allegro, MGL etc... aside from
the obvious one: cost.  Thanks much for your comments,
        Christopher

-- cmiller AT sgi DOT com
-- Systems Support Engineer, Silicon Graphics Inc.

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