ANN: prebuilt wx 2.8.4 lib / project template for Turbo C++

[gururamnath]

Hello,
I have created a pre-built wxWidgets 2.8.4 library for Turbo C++ / Borland Developer Studio - C++ Builder 2006. I have uploaded the wxWidgets codepak (equivalent to wx-DevC++/DevC++ devpak) to

http://codepaks.sourceforge.net/gui.htm

The Installation includes a ready to use wxDialog based project template and the precompiled wx Libs.

You can download the Free Turbo C++ Explorer at:

http://turboexplorer.com/downloads

[Please install the latest hotfixes before using it]

I'm sure the Turbo C++ will be a good alternative to the Free VC++ 2005 express editions. A good thing about Turbo C++ Explorer edition is that you dont have to install and configure platform sdk separately, everything is included in the package.

Thanks,
Guru Kathiresan

[priyank_bolia]

Sorry if it sounds rude, but I guess the idea of providing pre compiled binaries are not good. Like their is wxPACK which provides more than 100MB of package, now that may sounds cool to you, but my site statistics shows that a lot of users are from 3rd world countries where 1 MB means big money. In fact 2 year back, I used to pay 1 Rs for 1 MB in Delhi. So I can imagine what it means paying like 100$ to download that, for people in poor countries. Also every time, a new release is out of wxWidgets, it means re-downloading. Instead of small tutorials and tools like that of upCASE (though no new release of that for quite a long time) or build scripts will help more. Also that will give users the chance to know the basics. Though thats my opinion, and may not be correct.
Also there nothing like VS Express 2005 and configuring Platform SDK is a 5 minutes job, and all M$ tools are highly documented, also Express 2005 comes with many technical magazines or in local computer market for a very less price legally.

[gururamnath]

Sorry if it sounds rude, but I guess the idea of providing pre compiled binaries are not good.

Well from my wxDevC++ experience I would beg to differ. Believe it or not people **DO LIKE** prebuilt library as they dont have to go through the process of recompiling and packaging them.

With wx-DevC++ we give the users 2 options. One is to to download the bare wx-devc++ executable alone and the other one is the full fledged IDE with prepackaged wx library(which by every release getting bigger and bigger as we offer VC++ and MingW libs). Do you know many people are downloading it ? For a given day the SF tracker shows more than 10 GB / per day of data transfer which roughly equals to 200 downloads per day. If you look at the past year download stats, at the peak ~500 GB of data is been transfered in a month.

http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/de ... ckage_id=0

http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/de ... ckage_id=0

In fact 2 year back, I used to pay 1 Rs for 1 MB in Delhi. So I can imagine what it means paying like 100$ to download that, for people in poor countries.

I can clearly understand that. Things are changing pretty much. The last time when I was in Chennai, India (2004), lot of ISP started offering unlimited data transfer for Rs. 2500 / month. Now a days Indain ISPs are offering better service at low cost(I heard my parents are using the unlimited server which costs them Rs.1500 ) which is only a dream when I used to use the net back in 95. Even though I used dialup until 1999, I (well its my parents) used to pay more than Rs.5000 for monthly phone bill.

Also every time, a new release is out of wxWidgets, it means re-downloading. Instead of small tutorials and tools like that of upCASE (though no new release of that for quite a long time) or build scripts will help more. Also that will give users the chance to know the basics.

Certainly I agree with you. I'll try to create a tutorial and post it in the site. I havent done much work on building the libs. I pretty much followed Malcolm Nealon's DevPak tutorial and used bcc option instead of GCC.

http://wxdsgn.sourceforge.net/tutorials ... 0217cda.eg

Though thats my opinion, and may not be correct.
Also there nothing like VS Express 2005 and configuring Platform SDK is a 5 minutes job, and all M$ tools are highly documented, also Express 2005 comes with many technical magazines or in local computer market for a very less price legally.

Even Turbo C++ Explorer is Free and well documented. Lot of magazines give them in their CDs. I always like Turbo C++ in the earlier days but their Builder products (1-6) interface is not really suited for hardcore C++ developers who works only in non-VCL apps. With Turbo C++ and BDS 2006 they have changed the interface to match VC++ and I started liking it again. Apart from that the compilation time for the borland compiler is much better than VC++. This is atleast important for me when I build my projects lot of times during the development and I tend to save more time rather than sitting idle when the IDE compiles my code.

-Guru Kathiresan