Lars Finsen wrote: > Hi, group. > I'm new here, but having enjoyed working with C and Unix at my > employer's 18 years ago, I feel the time has come to take it up > again, maybe as a hobby, maybe as a little more than that. But I feel > I need a little advice. I have an old PC running Windows 98 2ed and a > new Mac running Mac OS X 10.4.7., and I'd like to develop C > applications on both. I know the Mac has Unix on a deep level, so > maybe I can find a C compiler deep down there somewhere. For my old > machine, I don't want to spend a lot of money upgrading it with newer > operative systems requiring further expensive hardware upgrades, so I > have tried finding useful C compilers that will run under Windows 98, > with no luck so far. Where should I look? On the other hand, maybe > the applications created by the old compiler won't run or won't run > well under newer Windows versions? Such things are known to happen. I > have been thinking of trying Visual C, because I fancy it will better > enable me to create graphic interfaces, using standard Windows > features. On the other hand I'd like my applications to be > transportable to my Mac. So basically I'm not yet sure what kind of > compiler I should get hold of or where to get it. Any comments? > > LEF
If you really want a full blown UNIX environment without working too hard, you can replace Win98 with FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org). It's not that hard to install, just download a CD image, burn it, and install. You don't need new hardware to run it at all. I'm sending this e-mail with it (I'm running on a pentium II) *and* running X and a decent window manager. On the other hand, you can run Cygwin, (http://www.cygwin.com). It is a linux-like (which is unix-like) environment for windows. You can do pretty much all the things you can do on a UNIX system with it (i.e. run X, a C compiler,a shell..etc) Both FreeBSD and cygwin come with TONS of development tools and compilers. As far as doing UNIX stuff on MacOSX, I know it exists, but I have zero experience with that. To unsubscribe, send a blank message to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/c-prog/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
