xHarbour and latest BCC 6.51 from 2013

Lucas

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Feb 13, 2013, 3:42:52 PM2/13/13

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Hello,

I would like to ask if xHarbour is compatible with latest BCC 6.51 released in 2013.

Also, now it has a 64 bit version.

Thank you.

John Lance

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Feb 13, 2013, 6:33:21 PM2/13/13

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I would like to ask if I may, and from the folks that maintain this,
what are the essential differences here?

Right now I am using Embarcadero C++ 6.3.1 (32 bit) - (C++ Builder from
RAD Studio XE), and I believe I remember a post somewhere stating that
support for the 6.3 compiler was being dropped. I'm able to compile
fine atm, but this has caused me some concern.

I prefer to use the Embarcadero product at this time.
John Lance

John Lance

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Feb 13, 2013, 6:37:47 PM2/13/13

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I would also mention that I did need to set up pathing in the batch file
because the other pathing that was set up via the batch file would not
have found my particular Embarcadero installation. I've not had any
issues to date once that one item was take care of.

John Lance

On 02/13/2013 03:42 PM, Lucas wrote:

Mel Smith

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Feb 13, 2013, 8:55:12 PM2/13/13

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Lucas said:
> I would like to ask if xHarbour is compatible with latest BCC 6.51
> released in 2013.
>
> Also, now it has a 64 bit version.

Hi Lucas:

Before you 'leap', please look/read carefully Andi Jahja's post here on
Dec 14 titled "New Color to BCC Compiler".

I've copied it below:

-Mel Smith

************* Andi's post ************
Hello All:

Just FYI.

Embarcadero has today announced the release of C++ Compiler 64 bit
(!), a thing that many people have in the past doubted it.

It is version 6.50:

The header/logo:

Embarcadero C++ 6.50 for Win64 Copyright (c) 2012 Embarcadero
Technologies, Inc.

Roll your own:

https://downloads.embarcadero.com/free/c_builder?CName=EM_CPBTREDM&Audience=CPBUG&Publisher=ON&Medium=EDM&Asset=Trial&cid=701G0000000Whaw

Just a note:

1. Object file creation is based on ELF technology, a thing that I am
new at. Object file extension is .o (exactly like GCC)
2. LIBrary is in the COFF format, same as MSVS and GCC

Andi
***************************************

Lucas

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Feb 14, 2013, 6:12:14 AM2/14/13

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Thank you.

I only tried 32 bits version. I was able to compile and link with laetst bcc 6.51 and the official xHarbour from Fivetech built with 5.82 version.

I have noticed in newest 6.51 a faster compiling time.

I can´t test 64 bit of BCC 6.51 as Fivetech does not provide support for that compiler´s version. Also neither xHarbour nor Harbour support 64 bits with bcc 6.51. But maybe it is interesting to test it.

Thanks again.

Manu

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Mar 25, 2013, 12:07:06 PM3/25/13

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Hola a todos!!!

Por lo que he le�do por alg�n foro el famoso "New Color to BCC Compiler"
est� basado en este compilador http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html
porlo que yo me plantear�a hacer una distribuci�n directamente en ese
nuevo compilador :-)

//-----------

Hi all!

From what I've read on some forum the famous "New Color to BCC
Compiler" is based on this compiler http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html
porlo that I would consider a distribution directly to the new compiler :-)

El 14/02/2013 2:55, Mel Smith escribi�: