Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/08/23/18:11:46
François Jacques wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> How of you guys have (or had) Borland C++ ? How many of you found
> frustrated by the performance of the compiler against Microsoft and now
> (even better) gcc/egcs ? Or just frustrated of limited STL support in BC
> 4.5... (I know 5.0x are fully STL-compatible and even maybe standard C++
> compatible, but that's not the point!)
>
> I *know* RHIDE and other free IDEs are out there. I don't want to use
> those. Some of you say, why? it's free! Well, I have paid for Borland
> stuff and I must admit I like it... if not *love* it :) but the compiler
> isn't satisfying me anymore when I know free compilers are out there and
> beating Borland's.
>
> I know I'm not the only guy on that planet who'd prefer to debug
> GCC/EGCS/DJGPP/whatever binaries in Borland IDE or plain Turbo
> Debugger. If one of you guys know how to do that, please let me know!!!
>
> Status of my research...
>
> 1. I need to configure Borland IDE to use GCC with C/CPP files. That is,
> set gcc as my C/CPP translator. Probably no prob there but haven't tried
> it yet.
I think that's impossible. I'm registered user of BC++ 3.1, I paid 350 dollars
for this crap (back in 1993). I think that's impossible because the compiler and
linker are *inside* the IDE. So the IDE doesn't call external programs and
doesn't collect the errors from any program.
The debugger is also inside and the help system can't read the djgpp's
documentation.
> 2. Need to configure Borland IDE to parse output from GCC (like in
> Codewright) *OR* use a perl script to adapt GCC output to Borland
> format. I do not think that would be a problem but sincerly haven't
> tried it. Anyone did?
As I said before: At least BC++ 3.1 doesn't parse anything the compiler is
inside.
> 3. Have Borland to read debug .o files
:-))), you should rewrite most of the Borland's debugger and I doubt you'll get
the source ;-)
> OR have GCC compile borland debug
> .obj
That's a huge task.
> OR have the debug .o converted to borland debug .obj
Impossible.
> Oh, BTW, I'd like to integrate NASM as well... :)
>
> Any help appreciated but please no "Use linux and dll, use RHIDE, etc
> etc etc".
I'll insist: just use RHIDE, you don't have another choice. I created the editor
and help of RHIDE because I was in a similar position (3 years ago).
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