KHMan <keinh...@gmail.com> wrote: (03/04/2009 10:15) >Apart from the links to Win32 help files that grischka has >mentioned, a alternative that is a little more up-to-date is the >"PlatformSDK_Svr2003R2_rtm" ISO (just do a Google search). It's >nicely packaged (self-contained, unlike a lot of other similar >downloads) and small (~400MB) compared to the latest SDKs (>1GB). >It installs MSDN-style Win32 API documentation that uses a >CHM-like browser, good enough if you are not aiming for the latest >APIs (it has pre-Win2K info up to WinXP info, but no Vista) and >does not want to use MSVC++ Express. >
Thanks, I'll probably get that. Though I like the earlier help because it's smaller, and uses things I know will run on all Win32 without me having to worry about that. And did I say it was smaller? :) CHM is nice though, I find them easier to navigate than most docs. >Given the lack of knowledge of the OP in these nitty-gritty >details, I would like to suggest that the OP use a standard C/C++ >compiler like MinGW on Win32. Say as a beginner, you just want to >write an application, so do stick to a compiler that is already >well-tested like MinGW (on Win32), or say you want to write an app >really quickly, you can use the wxLua that was mentioned earlier >(which uses wxWidgets, a good commercial-quality and mature >cross-platform widget set, and you develop in C++). > >But of course, if the OP has unlimited amounts of time at his >disposal, by all means try TCC and help with the development and >use of TCC. I am a little worried that the OP might be trying to >bite off more than he can chew -- if he is new to C, then I don't >think he should be using TCC at all, it's not a production-quality >compiler. Stick to the ubiquitous gcc. wxDec-C++ has gcc in it, and does C++, so I won't be solely using TCC, but I like TCC, and its ability to compile Lua is crucial, it means that lua scripts compiled by Lua2c (itself written in Lua) can be compiled by TCC to require a Lua.dll also compiled by TCC. This is elegant stuff, for distributing small console-based tools that only need basic file system accesses. It's also a good incentive to learn C by examining the translations Lua2c prepares. Further, I wonder if maybe a wxLua dll exists, that might allow me to write scripts compiled to C that run with that DLL. (Though I guess this a reach too far, unless Lua2c can cope with the various instructions aimed at wxLua...) TCC does something nice I can already use, so I SHOULD be using it, no? :) I'm just wondering how far I might take it. I won't be selling code so I don't mind taking unusual paths. _______________________________________________ Tinycc-devel mailing list Tinycc-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tinycc-devel
