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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:39:05 +0200
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From: bas DOT hamstraNOSPAM AT wxs DOT nl (Bas Hamstra)
Subject: Re: DJGPP (gcc) and Borland IDE
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Hi Francois,

I'm a Borland fan too. What you want to sounds rather complicated, I
don't think it is possible.

(If it is I'm interested too)

I use Borland C++ Builder and gcc paralel for several apps. I can't
say gcc is that much faster, for some time critical chess apps Borland
is even faster (turn ppro optimations on). Debugging is fantastic,
Assembler included. The only disadvante: no profiler!

That's why I use gcc paralel.



Regards,
Bas Hamstra.










>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.

>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?

>3. Have Borland to read debug .o files OR have GCC compile borland debug
>.obj OR have the debug .o converted to borland debug .obj

>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".

>If I ever get it done and any of you are interested, just let me know.

>Thanks in advance for you help!
>Francois Jacques