Re: Tcl no longer supports Borland Free C++ Compiler?

On 5 Oct 2005 00:43:57 -0700, "Tony" <bluy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Tony,
> Thank you very much for your concern! I'm really excited that you
>could reply me. I knew you'd been doing the work on compiling Tcl
>source with Borland Tools. You're so great. But I wonder whether Tcl is
>getting away from Borland products,
'getting away' is wrong - it's gone away a looong time ago.
> and more and more extensions
>support only M$ compiler in Win32 platform.
Probably the most extensions are compiled with VC++ nowadays (and a
minority with the GNU compiler suite). But this doesn't really matter:
Once an extension is compiled, it can be used as well from a VC
generated Tcl as from a Borland generated one.
> Do I have to make changes
>to the prebinary extensions complied in M$ complier if I use a
>BCC-compiled Tcl version?
This one I don't understand. What do you mean by 'prebinary
extensions'.

What is it you want to accomplish?

If you have a strong Borland background, and want to combine Tcl and C
in the myriad possible ways profiting from this background, then get
my patches and go. But be prepared that lots of additional work might
lay ahead: If ever you need to compile an extension, you will have to
invest work to adapt the makefile - at the very least. More often than
not some things will not compile and then you will have to look at the
code and understand and modify it, when all you wanted was just to
/use/ it.

If, however, you just picked the Borland compiler because it was free
than your life will probably be easier picking the GNU compilers,
because there is larger support for it.

Best regards
Helmut Giese
.

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