I honestly can't see it's advantages if we compare it to MSVC or GCC. Even if it's a good compiler, today it's not mainstream, so it's not widely supported and this makes it difficult to use it to compile 3rd party packages, or find support for it.
OW seems the best choice out of the "non-mainstream" bunch of compilers though, and it seems superior to BCC in most aspects, except support and general acceptance. This may change as OpenWatcom has the potential to grow and gain acceptance (being OSS), while I believe BCC is pretty much dying. Brgds, Viktor 2009/2/3 Horodyski Marek (PZUZ) <[email protected]> > ________________________________ > From: Viktor Szakáts [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:54 PM > To: Harbour Project Main Developer List. > Subject: Re: [Harbour] Out-of-Box usable Harbour Distribution with > XMate Project Builder > > > MSVC 2005 and above (Express Edition is free). > > or GCC 4.x, if you want to stick with open tools, > but GCC has a few drawbacks on Windows (executable size). > > Brgds, > Viktor > ________________________________ > What you think about OpenWatcom ? > > Regards, > Marek Horodyski > _______________________________________________ > Harbour mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour >
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