IMJack Posted February 17, 2003 Well it does. It's a memory-hog; I can't have it and my mail program open at the same time without Windows breaking down. It's drive for "convenience" in keeping a project together for everything just slows you down when you're trying to do a simple assignment with a few files. The thing doesn't recognize ANSI namespace standards, which I need to use. And when VC crashes, it goes down hard. So I need to find a better C++ compiler. Any idea how i get a recent version of Borland? Or d'you have any other suggestions? 0 Share this post Link to post
Ichor Posted February 17, 2003 I haven't had any problems with mine, which is version 6.0 on Windows 98. What version are you using? 0 Share this post Link to post
IMJack Posted February 17, 2003 Ichor said:I haven't had any problems with mine, which is version 6.0 on Windows 98. What version are you using? The same. 0 Share this post Link to post
david_a Posted February 18, 2003 Make sure you patched VC... The last service pack was like 150MB or something:) I don't see what the big deal about projects is. Just double-click the main file and hit compile, it'll make one for you. VC.NET, on the other hand, does not do this, which makes it unusable for me. I'm not sure if I ever got something compiled with it or not before I uninstalled it... AFAIK, Borland has their compiler as a free download. You have to do some online registration jazz, but there's no money involved. I used to have a copy, but I deleted it since I never used it. 0 Share this post Link to post
GooberMan Posted February 18, 2003 The compiler itself isn't the memory hog, it's the IDE. If you don't feel like hunting and downloading new compilers, edit all your source in notepad or something, and use the VC compiler from the command line. 0 Share this post Link to post
Bloodshedder Posted February 18, 2003 Supposedly Metrowerks Codewarrior beats the pants off Visual Studio, but I've never used it. 0 Share this post Link to post
GooberMan Posted February 18, 2003 I hear nothing but complaints about Codewarrior around work by people who use it day in and day out. 0 Share this post Link to post
zark Posted February 18, 2003 Ew, Codewarrior. We had to use that at school when we did Pascal (urgh) programming a couple of years ago and it really does suck. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted February 18, 2003 Like GooberMan said, the problem isn't the compiler but the IDE. The compiler only runs when you compile the program. So if you're having trouble with the IDE (which seems strange, I have no such problems), edit the code with Notepad or something like Texturizer or TextPad if you want syntax highlighting, then operate the compile/link procedure manually. Cumbersome, but it works. And make sure to check the service packs first. 0 Share this post Link to post
david_a Posted February 18, 2003 There's always the Eclipse IDE, I hear it's quite good (and free). 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted February 18, 2003 david_a said:There's always the Eclipse IDE, I hear it's quite good (and free). Eclipse isnt a compiler, just a development environment. 0 Share this post Link to post
david_a Posted February 18, 2003 Uh, I didn't claim it was a compiler... Just an Integrated Development Environment. 0 Share this post Link to post
GooberMan Posted February 19, 2003 lament said:C++ sucks. BASIC is better then I'm guessing... 0 Share this post Link to post
Lord FlatHead Posted February 19, 2003 GooberMan said:BASIC is better then I'm guessing... Or better yet, Turbo Pascal ! God I hate having to sit through three hours of that shit each week, when I could be writing pixel shaders in Cg instead. School != education 0 Share this post Link to post
Fredrik Posted February 19, 2003 Why don't you just write your pixel shaders in Turbo Pascal then. 0 Share this post Link to post
GooberMan Posted February 20, 2003 News just in: Doom 3 to be written entirely in COBOL. 0 Share this post Link to post
læmænt Posted February 20, 2003 GooberMan said:BASIC is better then I'm guessing... No, BASIC is not better. And I'm not joking. C++ blows. 0 Share this post Link to post