Hi,
I do not want to start discussion who is better. I just can say, why I'm using BCC.
It has 8.9MB single install file. I've also downloaded MSVC install CD, but understood I do not have enough free space on C:\ to install it :)
There are many talks about calling conventions, but until know I've successfully linked all .dll files I've needed (with BCC made import libraries), regardless compiler .dll was compiler with.
There are much more problems with .h and .lib files compatibility than with .dlls. I use gcc (actually mingw) for some projects, because I'm unable to link GTK .h files with BCC.
I've done some mingw tests in the past (trying to move from BCC to mingw), but mingw speed was poor. Perhaps because of not very good RTL code, for example mingw uses windows heap functions instead of high quality dlmalloc, ptmalloc allocators. I still like a small disk size programs, so, I guess I'll switch to mingw (it has 50MB on disk) some time. BCC bugs can make me do this switch very quickly, but until know these bugs does not exposes itself in end user applications.
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