Re: [Dev-C++] can't get dev-cpp to compile...

Kovalan Muniandy wrote:
> Thank you! That's interesting. Does this apply to STL classes only or 
> any headers, i.e. can you reference any header files without the ".h".
> The code was generated by Dev-C++ (The project wizard "Hello World"). I 
> guess that's a bug.

Only applies to C++ headers - it is a standard. The C standard library 
is still (as always) has .h extensions (stdio.h, etc.).

BTW, it indeed is a bug. Dev-C++ has quite old project templates. And 
that would the smaller problem, but there are bigger ones. The usage of 
MinGW (the compiler beneath Dev-C++) is still used in a very obsolete 
fashion: Dev-C++ still uses dllwrap for example for DLL compilaton, but 
GCC (MinGW) strongly reccomends using "g++ -shared" for compiling DLLs. 
I don't know why aren't they updating this.

With GCC 3.4, we "will" have header precompilation, but I don't when 
Dev-C++ is going to recognise it. Maybe 2-3 years after MinGW Gcc 3.4 
release...

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   Balázs