Borland's Free Ver 5 Compiler

[Michael Karas]

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Some time back the company that now holds the strings to what used to be
Borland posted an available Version 5 of their compiler tools for free
download.

Does anyone know if these Ver 5 tools are suitable for use in making
programs under MSDOS or FreeDOS?


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[Ross Ridge]

Michael Karas <mka...@carousel-design.com> wrote:
>Does anyone know if these Ver 5 tools are suitable for use in making
>programs under MSDOS or FreeDOS?

The free Borland C++Builder 5 command line tools were only usable for
creating 32-bit Windows applications, unfortunately.

Ross Ridge

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[Bill Leary]

"Michael Karas" wrote in message
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> [This followup was posted to comp.os.msdos.programmer and a copy was sent
> to the cited author.]
>
> Some time back the company that now holds the strings to what used
> to be Borland posted an available Version 5 of their compiler tools for
> free download.

I haven't downloaded anything but Turbo Pascal 5.5. If that's what you're
talking about then...

> Does anyone know if these Ver 5 tools are suitable for use in making
> programs under MSDOS or FreeDOS?

Under MS-DOS, yes. I've used it (Turbo Pascal 5.5) for that for years. I
don't have FreeDOS installed on anything, so I can't say about that.

- Bill

[rug...@gmail.com]

Hi,

On Sunday, April 7, 2013 2:58:07 PM UTC-5, Michael Karas wrote:
>
> Some time back the company that now holds the strings to what used to be
> Borland posted an available Version 5 of their compiler tools for free
> download.
>
> Does anyone know if these Ver 5 tools are suitable for use in making
> programs under MSDOS or FreeDOS?

I suppose you mean Borland C++ 5.5 from Embarcadero. You still need to "sign up" (give them some personal info) to get the download, but yeah, last I checked, it's freeware (but you probably can't redistribute it).

http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20633

Suitable for DOS? It's not a DOS compiler, only Win32 (PE) flat memory model, though it does use 32-bit OMF (OBJ), IIRC. You can use it in DOS via WDOSX or Japheth's HX, if you want. But it's not really a DOS compiler, so if you want "real" DOS (and access to lots of other DOS things that are harder to do in a Windows-oriented toolset), you'd be better off with OpenWatcom or DJGPP (IMHO).