On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 12:52:57AM +0200, Lars Finsen wrote: > 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.
I'd suggest you visit Apple's web site and follow the trail to their developer tools. You probably already have them on CD but don't know it yet. > 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. Windows 9x/ME does not make for a stable development environment. If you really want to use Windows for writing programs, I'd suggest Windows 2000 or XP. > 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. Newer versions of Windows (2000 & XP) generally run programs built with older compilers with no problem. In some cases there is a performance improvement. > 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? My personal feeling is that the older versions of Borland C++ Builder made for a faster visual development environment than what is available now, with the possible exception of the most recent free version of Visual Studio, which I've not had much experience with. Graphical programs written for Windows are generally not portable to OS X unless you use a third-party library such as wxWindows. You may also want to look at the Python language. Python is installed by default on all Macs running OS X. Regards Andrew 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/
