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   On 2023-02-06 21:10:08, Vitaliy Aksyonov (1:104/117) wrote to All:   
      
    VA> I want to do some code refactoring to remove dangerous coding   
    VA> approaches. Like memset() instead of new(), printf(), etc.   
      
    VA> Which compilers are still in use to build GoldED+ and for which systems?   
      
   If you're taking over development then it's really up to you what you want to   
   support.   
      
   Linux, FreeBSD or MacOS users will have modern versions of GCC and Clang   
   available.   
      
   Ideally the Windows version should be built with a version of MSVC that has   
   full STL support. This would exclude now-ancient MSVC versions like Visual   
   Studio 6.0 from 1998.   
      
   From memory the very recent versions of MSVC no longer produce binaries that   
   will run under Windows XP. I've found a good "middle ground" is something like   
   Visual Studio 2012, which still runs well under Windows 10 & 11.   
      
   OTOH it would be preferable if a free compiler could be used in Windows.   
   Recently I learned that in 2020 Embarcadero released a fork of Dev-C++ that   
   provides GCC 9.2 and supports C++11:   
      
   https://github.com/Embarcadero/Dev-Cpp/releases   
      
   OS/2 I'm not really sure about, but I know there are modern versions of GCC   
   available from the Netlabs repos.   
      
   I was going to suggest DOS/DPMI support should be dropped, but I see GCC   
   10.2.0 was ported to DJGPP in 2020, so that's probably useable. Though I doubt   
   many people would complain if DOS support was removed from future GoldED   
   versions.   
      
   Another option for Windows, OS/2 & DOS may be to build with a recent version   
   of OpenWatcom 2.0, though I don't know how well it supports STL or C++11. It   
   may be good enough.   
   The great thing about OpenWatcom 2.0 is can run under Linux, and it's also a   
   cross-compiler, so you can build DOS, Windows & OS/2 apps from Linux.   
      
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