u-tholly%ug.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Troy Holly) (10/22/89)
I need some help deciding if I can used Microsoft Quick C to do my program development. Now I know that all of the questions I am about to ask can be looked up in the Microsoft Quick C manual, but before I spend time going through it I want to know if it is feasable for developing my program; thus my questions should pretty much have yes/no answers. The application I am developing/maintaning currently has a size of 160K, and will probably get as large as 250K. The entire application has been written and developed on a PC using Microsoft C. I took the program over a few months ago and the programmer before me worked from the command line and thus had all make files oriented around that, so I just assumed that was the way to do it. Well, just the other day I found the Quick C manual tucked away in a corner, and after trying it out I know that I can speed up development using it. But is it useful for developing large programs using several libraries and mixed language calls? Specifically, can I -Call/link to Fortran libraries? -Compile, link, and a run a 200K application while in QC? -Link with a list of 25 object files from within QC? -Easily add-to/update .QLC libraries? -Debug .QLC libraries while in QC? What are you folks out there using QC doing with it? Any comments will be greatly appreciated. -Troy- -u-tholly%ug@cs.utah.edu- -ma.holly@science.utah.edu-
wozniak@utkux1.utk.edu (Bryon Lape) (10/23/89)
The newest version of Quick C (2.00) should do all of the things that you want to do. The biggest limitation will be the amount of memory that you have on the machine. -bryon-
Bob.Stout@p6.f506.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Bob Stout) (10/23/89)
The version of QC that comes bundled with MSC 5.1 is QC 1.5. As such, it's a useful enough prototyping tool but that's about it. Ironically, QC 2.0 has been out for a while now and is a quite viable alternative to MSC 5.1 - perhaps that's why they're still bundling 1.5!
stephen@milton.acs.washington.edu (Stephen Milton) (10/25/89)
I'm using qc2.0 and it works fine, pretty quick compiler but it doesn't run from memory like say turbo pascal, or turboC, it has to make the .exe and then shell. It does seem stupid that MicroSoft is still bundling 1.5 with MSC though. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] []Stephen M. Milton, Operator/Consultant, UCS, University of Washington [] [] 'stephen@Milton.U.Washington.Edu' [] []Lifetime Goals: Local Autonomous Anarchy, and A Good Beef on Rye Sand.[] [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]
fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith) (10/25/89)
In article <570@milton.acs.washington.edu> stephen@milton.acs.washington.edu (Stephen Milton) writes: >It does seem stupid that MicroSoft is still bundling 1.5 with MSC though. Well, Consider yourself lucky! The MSC 5.1 I have includes QuickC 1.01 !!!!!!!!(Yours must be newer than mine!) Fred