Subj : Re: Building dos application To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : Jogy Date : Thu Apr 15 2004 12:48 pm Jeff Baker wrote: > 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. > AFAIK there is one problem with developing DOS applications with BC5.x: You cannot use overlays. There is some bug with the 16-bit linker, which generates incorrect information when linking DOS app with overlays. I think there were more information in the newsgroups about the bug, and how to get the linker from BC4.5 and use it. Jogy .