Borland - free for commercial use?

Although I'm sure I'm still light years away from making anything of this caliber, I was curious about if I made a program with the free borland compiler, if I could sell it legally. I'm thinking it's the way for me to go, because it has more functions built in and all. Also a big reason is that according to the FAQ, my best bet for portability is a compiler with a build in function or the curses library, which I'm not even ready to learn about yet (hell, I'm still learning c itself!). For instance, to clear the screen, all the methods that FAQ has are good, but apparently my best bet is like I said, to download a compiler with a built in function for it, instead of a putchar \n loop or one of the other options, like the curses library.

But if I download this compiler now, and get used to using it, it would not be good to find out later that I couldn't sell a product made with it, due to some legal mumbo jumbo

I hope that all came out right, and made sense.

This isn't really on topic, and why don't you just read the license agreement you're presented with when you download and/or install the free Borland compiler?

As for clearing the screen, I would say there are not many new commercial programs under Windows that use the console, so this particular thing isn't really going to be much of an issue, no?

If you want portability, use ncurses. If you want something to work on a specific platform, use whatever you like.

good point, and your right, this is off topic, is it possible to delete a thread you made?

Since I haven't been able to find a way to delete this thread, I'll ask something on subject...

I've been trying to learn the command line way of invoking my gcc compiler, and google isn't much help. I keep seeing "GNU" - but no where does it say what that stands for.

And the manuals I've found online (or the closest thing to a manual) tells command line options, but doesn't give examples.

I tried "gcc program.c program.obj -i C:\pacific\include -l C:\pacific\lib" with no luck, as well as many other variations and parameters.

I know I can always just use the IDE to do this for me, but I just feel that I should learn it as well, like it's good to know...

right, command line arguments are one of the thing where u are allowed to enter data as a intial input to your program from the command promt. for instance if u wanted to specify the file name, or any numeraial vales and it may be anything which fits into the 2D char array. the following is a sample code of how to use a command line arguments

Code:

#include<stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int i;
    
    printf("Total no of argument %d\n", argc);
    printf("Arguments are as follo\n");
    for(i=0;i<argc;i++)
    printf("%s\n",argv[i]);
    
    getchar();
}
/*myoutput
a.out 12 45 87 36 96 45 0
Total no of argument 8
Arguments are as follo
a.out
12
45
87
36
96
45
0

*/

so u can see that the data eneted from the command like have been processed by the program and displayed. so if u want, u can use those values for any other applaication. if u see there the main fucntion takes two arguments. the first aragument argc of type int gives u total no of argumnets and the agrv will contain the actual argumnets itself.

hope this helps

ssharish2005

Actually, that's not exactly what I was asking, but you awnsered a question I've been meaning to ask for quite some time and kept forgetting, thanks a lot, it's very helpful!

Originally Posted by Ash1981

I've been trying to learn the command line way of invoking my gcc compiler, and google isn't much help. I keep seeing "GNU" - but no where does it say what that stands for.

GNU stands for GNU's Not Unix.

You can learn far more than you want to know if you go to www.gnu.org

It's my impression that most of the folks on this board seem to be programming on Windows platforms. I make my living programming on Linux and other Unix-like platforms, and GNU is very prevalent there.

GCC now stands for GNU Compiler Collection (I think it used to just be GNU CC, but could be wrong...). GCC has a number of compilers included - C, C++, Fortran, and Java if I recall.

Hope this helps....

It's my impression that most of the folks on this board seem to be programming on Windows platforms.

Ya think. Maybe because Bill has taken over the computer world and just about every computer has had or does have Windows running on it. I didn't say it was right or I agreed with it, but it is the facts. Companies are not going to program for a platform that doesn't have the market, unless they specialize in that market. Linux hopefully will one day be the OS, but that day is not here yet.

Big change will be when DX games can run on Linux. Then I'll switch.

Originally Posted by Bubba

Big change will be when DX games can run on Linux. Then I'll switch.

Cedega?
(Runs)

Originally Posted by Bubba

Ya think. Maybe because Bill has taken over the computer world and just about every computer has had or does have Windows running on it. I didn't say it was right or I agreed with it, but it is the facts. Companies are not going to program for a platform that doesn't have the market, unless they specialize in that market. Linux hopefully will one day be the OS, but that day is not here yet.

Big change will be when DX games can run on Linux. Then I'll switch.

My job consists of backend, e-commerce, and web programming, and while my company develops a Windows product, and our desktops are Windows, our backend servers run Linux.

That seems to be somewhat prevalent around here anyway.

Can't disagree with anything you've said though.

Originally Posted by Bubba

Linux hopefully will one day be the OS, but that day is not here yet.

well if the EEC actually enforces the court ruling it will be happening within the EEC soon.

This is the latest news article about it.

I really don't see MS complying with a court ruling to give open source developers the specifications for the communication protocols that would allow your linux workstation to connect to an AD / MSSQL server box as easily as a windows workstation, with the same functionality.

Originally Posted by fgw_three

It's my impression that most of the folks on this board seem to be programming on Windows platforms.

I'd say it's fairly even (Windows and non-Windows), but I only ever read/post in this section, no the Windows or Linux specific programming forums. I find that it's more usual for a poster from Windows to ask something here that's platform specific because a lot of the new posters are unable to distinguish between the C language and Windows specific functions. On the other hand, the ones coming from another operating system seem to more likely be aware that all the world is not using their operating system.