On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:36:08PM +0200, Lars Finsen wrote: > > 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. > > I really don't want to spend much money on my old machine, so maybe > I'll concentrate on the Mac. Except I'd like to make something that I > could share with my friends as well, of course. > > I've found Borland's free ver. 5.5 C++ compiler which will actually > run under Windows 98, so I'm going to try it out.
It should work. The main problem is that if you're writing GUI code and it crashes, it's not uncommon for Win9x to do stupid things, like freezing or start leaking memory horribly. > > Graphical programs written for Windows are generally not portable > > to OS X unless you use a third-party library such as wxWindows. > > Wow, didn't know about that. Seems almost too good to be true. Apple seem to push the use of Objective C for building GUI programs, as I recall, which is not at all common in the Windows world (or anywhere else really). Anyway, I think Apple have some documents on their web site relating to porting Windows program to OS X. > Sean Brewer wrote: > > > 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. FreeBSD is good (I'm using it to write this email), but you won't be able to write Windows programs with it to send to your friends. > > 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) Cygwin will run very badly under Windows 98. It really needs 2K or XP. 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/
