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In article <222@usna.NAVY.MIL> don@usna.navy.mil (Mr. Donald W. Garner (CADIG  STAFF) <don@usna.navy.mil>) writes:
>My Borland C++ 2.0 announcement indicated that "windows programming" was
>required.  When I called the 800 number the rep couldn't tell me if anything 
>other than Borland C++ 2.0 is required to generate complete MS Windows 3.0
>applications.  OK, SDK is not required.  I guess I need MS Windows 3.0 to
>test applications.  Is any part of the MS Windows 3.0 programming suite
>required to generate complete MS Windows applications?

No, BC++ 2.0 comes with everything you need to write Windows apps. It even
has a special Windows version of Turbo Debugger. I have neither MSC nor the
SDK, but I was able to compile and run the sample WinApps with no trouble.

OK, I take that back - I had ONE slight problem (with the MicroSoft Resource 
Compiler that came with the package): I installed everything in the \BC
subdirectory, instead of the default \BORLANDC subdirectory (I didn't want 
to have to type BORLANDC all the time - OK, so I'm lazy ;-) Unfortunately,
this breaks the Resource Compiler, which says it can't find RCPP.ERR or
some such file. This file resides in the \BORLANDC\BIN subdirectory under
the default configuration, but of course on my system it resides in \BC\BIN,
and this appears to be the cause of the problem. Copying the file to the
same subdirectory as the program I am compiling allows RC to find this file,
but there's got to be a better way. Unfortunately, none of the command
line switches listed in the docs describe what to do about this error - 
anyone else run into this, and what did you do to fix it?



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