[olug] OT: Seeking Information on Borland C++ CLI for M$

[Don Kauffman]

I've tried Cygwin but found that it doesn't compile the M$ headers. (M$ 
is not necessarily ANSI compliant.) I know, I know,  why am  I wanting 
to do this when I have Linux as an option? Because the online  course 
I'm taking uses them

I'm not a big fan of M$ but I will use it. I will try the mingw compiler 
first. But I would still like to get Borland to working.

Thanks Daniel and BIll,

Don Kauffman

William E. Kempf wrote:

>Daniel Pfile said:
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>>I don't remember having a problem with that compiler, but I was using
>>it on NT 4 and Win2k.
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>>I'd recommend getting cygwin. http://www.cygwin.com/
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>Depending on your needs, this is a rather invasive solution.  I'm not
>knocking it, as I use Cygwin myself, but if all you need is a C++
>compiler, installing a full POSIX environment is overkill.
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>>It's free, and you can run gcc on it.
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>Some other options:
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>* The MinGW compiler (based on gcc) is available from
>http://www.mingw.org/. This doesn't require the POSIX environment supplied
>with Cygwin, and as such is a better alternative if you don't need POSIX.
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>* The Microsoft compilers are available for free with the .Net Framework
>SDK from http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/howtoget.asp (If
>you're a MS basher, don't bother responding.)
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>William E. Kempf
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