2009/2/3 Viktor Szakáts <harbour...@syenar.hu>: > But it's not in fact optimized for MingW. This is a multicompiler > project, we can only recommend, but not decide on behalf of the > users. We can only make suggestion to enhance their final result. > There are many factors, so even this isn't always obvious. > Preferred list: > 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? a static lib written form vc 6,2005 will run in application compiled with msvc 2008 ?
> 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. > > I'm very old fashioned and I'm not using an IDE. > [ but not old fashioned enough to use VI/VIM/EMACS :) ] > So I'm using Far Manager + internal editor + command > line tools, not even the debugger. > I'd be nice to have something like Visual Studio > for Harbour, but so far I've seen none which would > actually enhance productivity (meaning being quick, > with good editor and well-integrated with the language > - syntax highlighting and "intellisense"). > Eclipse is the logical choice to integrate Harbour > with. Dunno what it takes though. Maybe there'll be > 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 > 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? >> Sorry for my ingorance >> What is oss? > > Open Source Software (similar is FOSS, FLOSS). Thanks _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour