> > > MSVC 2008, MSVC 2005, MingW/GCC 4.x, OpenWatcom. > > [ BCC only to do quick draft Harbour builds and to clean code from > > warnings/errors. ] > Very good suggestion > have you link for sdk required msvs2008 with harbour?
No sorry, it's somewhere on MS's website. > a static lib written form vc 6,2005 will run in application compiled > with msvc 2008 ? Depends how it's built, VC6 I wouldn't think so, but 2005 and 2008 can probably be mixed. Depends on some factors I cannot and don't really want to oversee, so I generally avoid mixing versions, or even using different build options. > > For Harbour it doesn't really matter as Harbour uses dlmalloc > > anyway, and we just use a very small number of C RTL calls, > > even less is allocating memory. And we're trying to get rid > > of those gradually (see hb_snprintf()). > So for harbour code mingw not have noticiable speed differences? > and in future will run better on mingw/gcc. Harbour+MinGW doesn't have a speed penalty because of memory management, in my experience. Neither does BCC, as both are using dlmalloc in Harbour by default. [ in 1.1.x that is, in 1.0.x the picture is different. ] > > something lighter on the scene. > I am a old user of norton commander so Far manager seem very nice to me,. > Visual Studio have extensibility also for other languages Yes, but it's a minefield when it comes to licensing. Far Manager is now also Open Source BTW. Unicode version is under development. > > At least half point of these IDEs are the integrated UI > > design tools, and for Harbour, this is problematic until > > it doesn't have a native GUI API + class. > > Will native GUI API+ class start from xbase++ part made by Pritpal > Bedi implementation? The Xbase++ visual class part maybe, but the backend is Windows-only so it doesn't fit Harbour at the moment. We'd need a portable GUI API under it. GTK or QT. QT is now available in LGPL, which may fit Harbour and Harbour apps, but I'm no law expert. QT is much smoother than GTK, AFAIK. BTW, does anyone know what is the difference between LGPL and GPL+Harbour exception? Brgds, Viktor
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