ok, since i am going to have to lay down some cash, is there any reason i
couldn't go with the $99.95 standard editions of these or is there a
compelling reason to get a professional edition?

david

At 05:25 PM 6/21/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Your options are:
>MS Visual C++ (works - my preferred choice)
>Borland C++ (should work without modifications; I never tested it)
>Metrowerks CodeWarrior (should work with some modifications; I never tested
>it either, but I may have too at some point ;-)
>
>Freeware/shareware/opensource: No compiler I know of. Cygnus GCC for Win32
>(from www.cygnus.com) will NOT work - they are not supporting enough of the
>Win32 functionality - their stated goal is to provide GCC (==Unix) guys with
>a compiler for easier porting; their include files lack many things and
>building DLLs is just a very subtle way of punishing people for wanting to
>create Win32 stuff at all.
>
>  Andreas
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>> ----------
>> From: 	David Farber
>> Reply To: 	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
>> Sent: 	Monday, June 21, 1999 5:16 PM
>> To: 	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
>> Cc: 	recipient list not shown
>> Subject: 	compiling the VM on Win machines
>> 
>> 
>> what are my options if i want to compile the VM on Windoze machines? are
>> there any freeware/shareware/opensource compilers i could use? or is
>> anyone
>> in the final stages of coding a retargetable C compiler in squeak? ;)
>> 
>> david
>> 

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