7 May
2002
7 May
'02
6:31 a.m.
And thusly Ben Franchuk spake:
Not just that- the Microsoft BASIC compiler provided two modes
of compilation- one that produced HUGE stand-alone binaries, and
one that kept the HUGE chunk of common code in a runtime-library.
That library had to either be in the current directory or somewhere
along the path...
-dq
What pisses me off is the fact that both systems use dynamic libraries.
This makes a real mess of things. I liked dos -- you have a program
it runs from the .exe non of this you need version blah blah blah ...
DOS sometimes needed library files - take 32-bit protected mode. You need to
have a DOS extender file in the path or directory of the executable. 
7 May
7 May
9:20 a.m.
At 11:31 AM 5/7/02 -0400, you wrote:
Not just that- the Microsoft BASIC compiler provided
two modes
of compilation- one that produced HUGE stand-alone binaries, and
one that kept the HUGE chunk of common code in a runtime-library.
That library had to either be in the current directory or somewhere
along the path...
-dq
At least with QuickBasic you had the choice of incorporating BRUN45.EXE
and BRUN45.LIB into the .exe file. I remember that with Borland
compilers you had to include lots of files such as
CGA.BGI, HERC.BGI, EGAVGA.BGI together with any application that
you wrote.
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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo(a)nospammers.ieee.org
9:35 a.m.
At least with QuickBasic you had the choice of
incorporating BRUN45.EXE
and BRUN45.LIB into the .exe file. I remember that with Borland
compilers you had to include lots of files such as
CGA.BGI, HERC.BGI, EGAVGA.BGI together with any application that
you wrote.
When I was running both TurboBasic and PowerBasic, neither
one required you to issue 'includes' to access standard video modes.
In over 12 years of running PowerBasic I've never had to link to an
external file. PowerBasic also compiles into fairly small
executable's, which are the only thing required unless there are
datafiles that the programmer required to be present. I never liked
the way QuickBasic required the distribution of it's external library
with the executable, especially since you never quite knew which
version of it a given program would require as things changed.
Jeff
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