From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Please help: cannot find header file error in C++ with RHIDE Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 20:21:31 -0400 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt. Lines: 40 Message-ID: <35943B0B.FF865BE6@cs.com> References: <000001bd9ea2$45ea1060$3952cd86 AT krozy DOT comm DOT hq DOT af DOT mil> <359068FA DOT 1370881 AT cs DOT com> <35957aa9 DOT 1821723 AT news DOT Austria DOT EU DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp119.cs.net 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 Precedence: bulk Gerhard Gruber wrote: > > >- It's true that DJGPP installation is somewhat more complex than the > >average Borland installation, at least at first. However, the vast > > Complex? Unzipping the various packages, setting up the PATH and DJGPP > environment variables and starting to work is complex? :))) The only "complex" > thing about DJGPP is to decide which packages to download. But only until you > read the FAQ and see what you need. DJGPP installation is complex compared to putting a disk in the drive and running SETUP.EXE. Personally, I'm used to downloading files, creating a directory, unzipping, and editing my autoexec.bat. Others don't always have the benefit of this experience. It's not _difficult_, but it does require that a person actually read the instructions. > Another drawback (as I see it) of these integrated environments is, that there > are students that don't even know that a C sourcefile is plain ASCII because > they never looked out of MSVC or whatever IDE they are using. I agree with this one; it's come up several times. > And another advantage: After W95 is crashed and you had to reinstall try to > run MSVC or Borland C right after it. No way. You have to reinstall it > completly loosing all changes you did to the environment and can't remeber > anymore because you did it some time ago. DJGPP is up and running a few > minutes after initial installation and at once after a crash. I didn't know that; I've never had a copy of one of those compilers to play with in Win95. Sounds like another good reason to use DJGPP. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich | "If 'everybody knows' such-and-such, | | aka Fighteer I | then it ain't so, by at least ten | | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | thousand to one." | | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | - Lazarus Long | ---------------------------------------------------------------------