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This chapter provides brief descriptions of the widely used compilers for C/C++ and Fortran and gives practical advice on working with them.
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Obviously, there is a significant performance penalty, but the advantage of this approach is the relative ease of implementation of cross-platform (portable) applications.
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At present, its successor Open Watcom is being developed by the open source community.
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The Borland C/C++ compiler (as well as other products of this company) was, of course, a standout product in some ways, with a friendly development environment bundled with an extended (and non-C++ standard) library. Borland’s mediocre policy ruined this compiler (although Embarcadero, which owns the rights to this product, continues to release the C++ Builder line, this environment is not popular). The minimum version of Borland C++ 5.5 after registration can be downloaded free of charge from the Embarcadero website: www.embarcadero.com/free-tools/ccompiler/free-download
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In principle, anyone can build MinGW for themselves, since its source code is open.
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We mean the fact that when installing Microsoft Visual Studio, components are installed along the way that are completely unnecessary for C/C++ programming, and these components are often uninstallable.
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Recall again that Windows does not have a make utility, and nmake is its counterpart; however, these utilities are not compatible.
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Tuleuov, B.I., Ospanova, A.B. (2024). Compilers. In: Beginning C++ Compilers. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9563-2_9
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