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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: C development environment for IIGS
Keywords: C,IIGS,development
Message-ID: <10977@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 8 Sep 89 11:10:42 GMT
References: <197@fjcp60.GOV>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <197@fjcp60.GOV> brinkema@fjcnet.GOV (John R. Brinkema) writes:
>I am about to purchase a C development enviroment (C compiler, plus
>friends) to do some software development on my IIGS. I am interested
>in what the experienced developers recommend.

There are only two sensible choices that I know of:  APW C (plus APW
itself, or the ORCA desktop environment) and ORCA/C (shipped with the
desktop environment).  The basic APW environment is text-oriented while
ORCA provides an APW-compatible environment that also includes graphic-
oriented operation (including mouse-driven text editing) and a source
level debugger.  At present APW C supports pretty much the K&R I
language, with Apple extensions such as a "pascal" storage class for
functions, while ORCA/C attempts to provide a Standard C (K&R II)
environment, again with Apple extensions.  Both now come with headers
for IIGS ToolBox access.  APW and APW C are available only from APDA,
while ORCA/C is available from ByteWorks and may be found in some
software stores.

I have both and find that each has its own set of problems.  Generally
ORCA/C seems to be more useful, especially given its debugging environment.