> Different order of c compiler for xharbour by xailer > http://xailer.info/esp/?p=179
Few more points to make after reading the article in translator: - They ranked Pelles C the first, but they forgot to measure execution speed. - In the article they worry about MSVC being abandoned as free product, but in fact the same can happen with Pelles C in one way or another. (ie. it's already abandoned, since it's not updated) - Harbour users and developers _do_ use mingw, so for us (compared with xhb users) it's not alien. - As I mentioned here a few times (and as it's documented in INSTALL), MSVC 2008 compiler tools are now included in Windows SDK 7, which means it's easy to use in a compact package for x86 and x64 development. I doubt MS would pull it as free tool if they decided to bundle it with SDK and given current trends in OS/compiler business. (though of course nobody can guarantee it, just like for any other non-open source compilers, including Pelles C) This leaves MinGW and MSVC the leading choices for Harbour. [ BTW, the article is from 2009 April, so at that time they couldn't predict SDK 7 and the apparent stall in Pelles C development. ] Of course it's always good to have more options, that's why we also support watcom, icc, pocc and bcc as well. Anyhow for real work these are less suitable at the moment. As for BCC64, if they make it available without much trouble (and it also works properly), we can add support for it easily in Harbour. Brgds, Viktor _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
