Microsoft's official C++ development platform is Visual C++, or MSVC. MFC refers to the Microsoft Foundation (C++) Classes, which comes with MSVC. Yes you have to buy it.
I've used this stuff extensively in a prior life. -- Rod On Tuesday 21 October 2003 09:56 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > thanks jon (and mark). one question. are GUI development libraries > available on microsoft? in other words, can you compile GUI oriented > programs (and not just programs that live in a DOS box). > > i know there's something called MFC which (i think) people have to pay > for, but i have no idea what it does. > > sorry for being so lame, but i really know NOTHING about windows, other > than how to it set up to talk to samba. :) > > pete > > > > On Tue 21 Oct 03, 9:50 AM, Jonathan Stickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Pete > > > > Are you aware of Bloodshed Dev-C++ > > (http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html)? It appears to use a windows > > port of GCC for the compiler. It's all GUI oriented, which I know you > > don't like, but when I tried with some simple programs it "just worked". > > > > I don't know anything about mxwindows, though. > > > > Jonathan > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >i've played around with wxwindows, which is supposed to be one of the > > >most cross platform GUIs around. > > > > > >i've written some test programs on linux, and now i'd like to try to > > >compile them on windows (we have win98). > > > > > >there's lcc-win32, but AFAIKS, it's for C, not C++. are there any free > > >C++ win32 compilers that will compile my wxwindows code? > > > > > >pete _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech