From: Ciaran McCreesh <keesh@...>
Date: 2001-11-22T00:53:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:26037] Re: Compiling Ruby Extensions in Windows

Edward Diener wrote:

> Lost to the MSVC crowd is the fact that Borland puts out a free C/C++
> compiler for Windows and it is more compatible to the C++ language than
> VC++.

Doesn't produce small apps, there's quite a bit of overhead with Borland's 
compiler's exes. Still, diskspace is cheap.

You need to play around a bit with commandline options to get 'real' C++ 
support. Run the compiler with no parameters to get more information.

And a URL...

http://www.borland.com/bcppbuilder/freecompiler/

HTH

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