From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: MS Windows Development with djgpp? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 20:09:07 -0800 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 36 Message-ID: <33092B63.B9E@cs.com> References: <33086421 DOT 754F AT nation-net DOT com> Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp204.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Paul Walsh wrote: > > I just got djgpp. Can it be used for developing MS Windows apps. Which I > guess means, are there any PD Windows libraries? The closest thing is RSXNT/DJ, available as 'v2tk/rsxntdj1.zip', which allows you to create native apps for Win95 and Win/NT. However, there are some caveats: - It doesn't have a IDE - It doesn't support debugging of Windoze apps - The current version is outdated, and makes some incorrect modifications to the DJGPP configuration files. - You need some additional tools, such as a resource compiler and a "windows.h" header. Several people have solved these problems (I'm not one of them so don't ask me) and are very happy with RSXNTDJ. I'm sure one of them will be glad to tell you how to get it to work. > If not, what's the best/easiest way to learn to build small C++ Windows > apps. Is it Visual C++, or is there a TurboC++ with Windows support? I > don't know Visual Basic - would it be worth learning? From what I've heard, Visual Basic is very smooth and easy to write Windows apps with. Unfortunately, it's slow and bloated. Visual C++ would probably be a good choice for you if you're willing to put up with a Microsoft development platform. :) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | fighteer AT cs DOT com | | * Proud user of DJGPP! * | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | | ObJoke: If Bill Gates were a robber, not only would he | | shoot you, but he'd send you a bill for the bullets. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------