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9 comments, last by Democow006 23 years, 9 months ago
I am a broke 16 year old progammer, who oly used Djgpp and dos till about 4months ago when i got some books on DirectX and windows progamming at the book store, and well i read them even though i dont have a compiler for use with it(to practive i use word pad ) i have n source of income(noo jobs were avaliable) and i was wondering are is there like a free win32 directX compiler, or like a progam where you can get vc++ free or anyhting like that, i tired getting hired to kill somone but it didn work out as well as i hoped jk jk Vivia La Revolcion
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Hehe, you can get free MSVC, the introductory edition... But you need money for it. "What? But you said it was free!"... well kinda, you actually need to buy a book with it.

Sorry, but I can''t think of any other compilers that you could get for free which would compile for DirectX...


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Borland give away their compilor. Version 5.5 I think. I haven''t downloaded it and i''ve heard it''s only the command line tools. Still, it should work well.

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The Borland Tools work very well. DirectX seems to work but I haven't tested it a huge amount.

I also forgot to say mingw32 might do directx.

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Edited by - crazy-vasey on August 6, 2000 5:58:24 AM
DirectX works with it? I tried and I kept getting linker error:
Undefined Linker Error at [0000:0000] which lead me to believe that it couldn''t handle 32bit linking (seg:offs isnt 32bit!). How exactly do you compile with it? The reason why I bought M$VC was because I couldn''t compile DirectX or OpenGL with Borland (4.5 or 5.5)... and yes.. it is only the command line tools

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what about lcc? thats supposed to be a win32 compiler isn''t it?..
I have it, but I have only used it to compile the translated eiffel code. That was before I changed eiffel to use BCC instead .. oh yeah, and BCC is apparently a Win32 compiler too.. Considering you can choose that option in the IDE

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MingW32 works for win32 stuff, at least for DLLs. ALso MSCV++ Standard is only 25 bucks after a 50 dollar rabate.

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here were i live, was a series of magazines(that ones that comes prizes so anyone buy util the last number) that teach how program in C++ and it comes with a borland C++ builder. maybe there something similar where you live

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