Subj : Re: Building dos application To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : "Jeff Baker" Date : Thu Apr 15 2004 01:35 am Sebastian made some good points and answered your question perfectly but I would just like to throw my two cents in before this topic is closed. The last Borland IDE/Compiler that would run under DOS was 3.x. Versions following that (4.x and 5.x) all need to be run in a Window environment. Borland C++ 5.02 is (in my opinion) the best IDE/Compiler for creating DOS applications. The debugger operates just like Borland's 3.x version IDE and works perfectly. The EasyWin project option is nice but it wont/can't let you use any hardware interface type functions (inp, outp, exc...) so if your going to write a program that should run under Windows the EasyWin is pretty limited but still nice for a little quick utility program or something of that sort. On one final note, if your planning on purchasing add on tools (DOS graphic packages, DOS data base packages, DOS print drivers/routines, exc...) almost all of the require that you be using Borland C++ 4.5 or above because there is a bug in the graphics kernel and a bug somewhere else (I don't remember off right now) that is in the 3.x version compiler. Hope this helps, - Jeff "Sebastian Ledesma" wrote in message news:407d5c6b@newsgroups.borland.com... > > "vYv" escribió en el mensaje > news:407d4da3$1@newsgroups.borland.com... > > > > > >Can anyone tell me which is the last version of c++ compiler that can > > build > > > >16bit dos application? > > > > > > BC++ 5.02 > > > > > > > Would this version also operate under dos? > > > > vYv > > > > No, the IDE only run in Win32. There is no IDE for DOS. > For debugging, it includes 3 debuggers: > - TD.EXE for DOS applications > - TDW.EXE for Win16 > - TDW32.EXE for Win32. > Also Win32 applications can be debugged from the IDE. > > If your application it's console type you can use 'EasyWin' that allows to > generate a Windows application (with > the same look&feel of a console application). As another alternative you can > generate a 'console' Win32 application. > > Saludos > Sebastian > > .