It looks like Borland is not an option then, thanks everyone for reading & replies.
--- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Dan Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do Not! fork out and use another compiler than the GCC. > > As the development of the GCC have been seen breaking some softwares and > libraries, it would probably be a serious waste of time to start forking the > makefiles for further compilers. > > Regarding quality - GCC is probably the most developed and checked compiler > out there. Besides, the GCC is a free software and by that - available to > anyone. > > I seriously doubt you will be able to find any serious shortcomings of GCC > when compared to Borland. > > There are reasons behind the major C-compiler producers to compare their > products with GCC. > > If you want to develop KiCad further, use GCC! If you "have" to add .NET > functions, see to that they are compatible with MONO so we can compile them > in fully open source environments. > > > //Dan > > On Saturday 13 October 2007 19:55:37 drwrench wrote: > > Hi Dick, Thanks for the reply. > > > > > I have not seen support for this compiler in the makefiles. > > > > Ok > > > > > Do you realize what the quality level is for the GCC compiler suite > > > that Kicad uses as standard? > > > > I don't know much about the recommended compiler but I did download > > it and will use it if I need to. > > > > I mainly develop using Borland tools for Java, C# and Pascal > > languages. I was hoping that if I could "import" Kicad into Borland > > CPP builder then everything would be under one IDE and I could tryout > > the possibilites of integrating parts of Kicad into other > > applications written in other languages. > > > > It's more out of interest at the moment as I have no real need to use > > any CAD package and don't want to learn a new compiler suite if I can > > avoid it for now. > > > > But in the future I may need CAD so would like to try things out > > early on if I can and I thought the Borland route would be the > > easiest way for me. >