eiffelroom - C compiler - Comments

I'm looking forward to this

patrickr — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:20:50 -0700

I'm looking forward to this as well and will test it as well.

Bootstrap

manus_eiffel — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:29:49 -0700

We certainly hope so.

Performance

manus_eiffel — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:29:29 -0700

We are in the early stage for MinGW so I can't tell. The generated code for Microsoft is usually better than the one from Borland because their Free version does not offer what their paying version used to in terms of optimizations.

Looking forward ...

schoelle — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:26:03 -0700

Great, I will definitely be an alpha-tester, I disliked the need for a VC installation under Windows anyway.

Now of course the question is: will we be able to bootstrap EiffelStudio on Windows using MinGW? ;-)

Performance?

colin-adams — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:31:23 -0700

Have you had a chance to see how finialized applications compare for performance wrt Borland and Microsoft back ends? Colin Adams

At the moment Windows SDK is

manus_eiffel — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:46:34 -0800

At the moment Windows SDK is a better choice because it is exactly the same C compiler than the one included in VS 2005 and it is completely free.

This is a limitation of the

manus_eiffel — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:46:04 -0800

This is a limitation of the poll engine we are using. You should select the one you are really using. If you are still using VC++ 6.0 for compatibility with newer compiler from Microsoft, you should not check it. The goal of this poll is to see who is really using VC++ 6.0 for himself, not for others.

Multiple Choice

saunders — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:38:25 -0800

I have Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and the Vista SDK installed. The newest version of 6.0 appears to be using cl from the SDK. I don't know, but wonder if the compiler from 2005 would be a better choice.

I think the poll should have

berend — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:59:22 -0800

I think the poll should have been a checkbox. I'm still using VC++ 6.0 as well for example.

The only 64-bit compiler

manus_eiffel — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:19:04 -0800

The only 64-bit compiler available for free is the Microsoft one, unfortunately we cannot redistribute it.

True, that is indeed a

schoelle — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:41:57 -0800

True, that is indeed a problem that I had not noticed. Is there a 64 bit variant of the borland compiler? MinGW might still be a replacement for Borland on the 32-bit platform (which will not go away too soon).

MingW

manus_eiffel — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:44:34 -0800

I guess we should give it a try, but we are looking at 64-bit C compiler and on Windows GCC is only 32-bit, at least last time I checked.

MinGW

schoelle — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:41:27 -0800

http://www.mingw.org/ - we are already using GCC on any other platform than Windows, why not on Windows directly?