I use gcc. Plain old gcc on Linux, and MinGW's version of gcc on Windows. I 
used to use Cygwin's version of gcc on Windows also, but now just MinGW.

I used to use Microsoft Visual C++ version 7 on Windows. It's a fine 
compiler and easy to use, but it the code it made didn't make Csound run any 
faster than gcc, which is free. I can afford it, myself, but I figure it's 
better for the Csound community if you can count on building  Csound with 
free tools.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Victor Lazzarini" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Csound 4 is not ANSI C89


> Do you use visual c++ to build csound5?
>
> Victor
>>
>> Viusual C++ v6 does not support it, and I have now
> checked
>> the free download of  Visual C++ 7, and that does not
>> support it either (no stdint.h anywhere, nor are  the
>> types defined anywhere else). I have yet to try the beta
>> of Visual C++ .NET  2005 (demands more space than my
> spare
>> machine can supply), but even if that  does support C99
>> (and assumning it is not modified or "extended" in some
>> way),  many developers are likely to stick to v7, or even
>> v6 for some time yet. Indeed,  having found that even the
>> V7 optimiser still generates astonishingly  pathological
>> instant-crash code for one particular program of mine,
>> while the  Intel compiler generates
>> correct/efficient/compact code, I am currently rather
>> more likely to upgrade to the Intel compiler than VC vX;
>> and that does not  support C99 either as far as I can see!
>>
>> So I think we will want to stick to ANSI for the
>> forseeable future. At the very  least, given the new
>> dependence on plugins, we would want to be sure C99
>> modules  can link to C89 ones, and the introduction of new
>> types into c99 would seem to  preclude that, except where
>> the C99 modules are ANSI compliant anyway.
>>
>>
>>
>> Richard Dobson
>>
>>
>>
>> Istvan Varga wrote:
>> > John D. Ramsdell wrote:
>> >
>> >> I noticed that csound/ccsound.c was not ANSI C89, so I
>> tried compiling >> the Csound 4 source using GCC with
>> -ansi.  I found out there are many >> parts of Csound 4
>> that are not ANSI C89.  The file csound/aifc.c >> contains
>> multi-byte characters, but worse, csound/csound.h uses C+
> +
>> >> style one line comments--a C99 feature.  I fixed
>> csound/ccsound.c, >> but did not touch anything else.
>> >
>> >
>> > Would it be possible to switch to C99, at least in
>> > Csound5 ? It has many useful features compared to C89.
>> > How many people use compilers that still do not support
>> > C99 ?
>> >
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