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From: hugh@sivs.uucp (Hugh Daschbach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Programming Windows 3.0
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.175627.1924@sivs.uucp>
Date: 22 Jun 91 17:56:27 GMT
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hamilton@udel.edu (andrew hamilton) writes:

>I'd like to try programming in Windows 3.0, i.e., writing my own Windows
>programs, so I bought the official Microsoft _Programming_Windows_ book,
>but this book says that you must have Microsoft C version 6.0.
> I already have
>Turbo C 2.0 and Microsoft C 5.0, so my question is, does anybody have any
>experience programming for Windows in either of those languages.  Is it
>possible? 

Ray Duncan's column in the June 11 PC Magazine describes special
requirements for programs that will be run under Windows.  There are
changes to the .EXE file format output by Microsoft's recent linkers.
And the MSC C compiler generates special prolog and epilog code for
functions that interface with the Windows runtime.

> Also, how much does the Microsoft Windows Software Development
>package cost?

You can find it discounted to about $320 or so.

>Is it possible
>to program in a language other than C (pascal, modula, etc.).

Duncan's article notes that Borland's C++ 2.0 includes the ability to
generate Windows application programs.  I haven't used it - I have the
Microsoft SDK and compiler.  Recent Borland advertisements indicate
that their newest pascal compiler will generate Windows applications.
But why write in pascal when you can use C or C++ :-).
-- 
Hugh Daschbach                  hugh@sivs.com