One thing to keep in mind with these compilers is you may not have much
luck compiling the windows GUI version of pov.  Both packages have some
support for windows APIs, but are not complete, and I'm not terribly
familiar with the Win32 aspects of either.  You shouldn't have much
trouble with the command-line Dos/Unix versions though.

Ken

Psychomek wrote:
> 
> thanks i'll try that cause i keep getting errors in the borland even after i read
> all the docs pertaining to compiling.. (all docs are for moderate to expert users
> it seems)
> 
> Ken Cecka wrote:
> 
> > If you don't have any luck with BCC, you could always use djgpp (the dos
> > port of gcc), or cygwin32 which includes gcc.  Both of these are freely
> > available off the net:
> >
> > http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
> > http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > Psychomek wrote:
> > >
> > > Oh if possible a tutorial would be nice...  since  i don't really know what
> > > i am doing....
> > >
> > > Psychomek wrote:
> > >
> > > > well i saw the link to the compiler the other day and figured i would
> > > > take a shot at it and try and compile a 3.1g based Megapov for
> > > > windows....  well now it turns out that I can't due to one tiny
> > > > thing...  I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO USE THIS COMPILER!!!!!!
> > > >
> > > > Please can someone explain to me in PLANE ordinary english how to
> > > > compile it?   i would be able to in Linux (have compiled programs there
> > > > before)  but not windows... it seems to me a conspiracy *scans the room
> > > > for electronic bugs*.   please help me...

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