From: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
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Date: Mon, 17 Jun 96 21:11:00 UTC 0000
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Subject: Re: best UNIX-->DOS porting co

Reply to message 5564334    from ALLENP AT NIMA DOT E on 06/17/96  6:35AM


>3)	Would Windows compilers like MSVC or Borland C++ for windows ease
>	my porting pains?  (Mostly getting a shareware tiff library written
>	with ANSI C working).

Eli answered your first two questions fairly well, but I'd like to add a
comment
to the third:  Borland and Microsoft do NOT do a very good job of Unix
compatibility AFAIK.  In DJGPP, even when Unix functions are not supported
by the DOS environment (like fork()), they still exist for portability
purposes.

>I suspect getting GCC would be the best way to go, but I was hoping for some
>input from some more experienced folk.

Most likely so.  Even the command-line format is the same as the Unix
versions of the same packages, so you don't have to worry about the
peculiarities of a given IDE.  That said, there are some user-developed
IDEs out there like RHIDE that provide an excellent programming
interface.  So you have the best of both worlds.  :)
John