Alternate Win32 compiler?

#1 heh,
It can be done with the makefiles with some custamization.
you could use borlands free command line compiler.
Im not gonna support this sorry, but if you have the ingenuity you could do it.

Good luck :)

#2 I installed VS6 Ent and stripped it down to 131 MB using the custom install option.

It tells you how much disk space it will need, just remove all the windows specific crap like COM/MFC and all the other useless crap.

#3 I once tried to get it working with ming, and I made a fair amount of progress, but sort of loss interest in it. Some things (like opengl23d3) will never compile with ming because of all the inline asm, however at least the engine/demo app can be made to work I think. You would use make and the standard torque makefiles to build it.

#4 Thanks Jarred maybe I'll try that.

#5 Yes, I believe that the makefiles will work for some GnuCC version, and there are project files (and makefile settings) to support Codewarrior.

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#6 Mike, also look at www.slickedit.com I use it to acutally do my editing of code, since I do Java as well as C++, Java during the day, C++ by night :)

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I do compiling and step debugging in VS6 just because it is already set up and working, I am lazy and will one day configure SE to do the compiles.

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#7 Hey, thanks for your replies everyone.