An ancient C++ compiler and IDE for DOS

[FoobyZeeky]

Hi all,

Around 2006-7 when I was quite young, I had a Windows XP machine with a legacy C++ compiler and IDE installed. I am now trying to remember what the product's name was.

All I remember is that the editor opened in text mode and was obviously designed for DOS. The name "PGCPP" rings a bell, but all some googling found was PGI Compilers & Tools, who specialise in compilers for parallel computing. I downloaded an old release of theirs from 2000, and it contains their proprietary compiler alongside a Cygwin environment, including Vim and Emacs. This is clearly not the IDE I remember.

Does anyone with C++ experience spanning around 15-20 years have any idea what product I used back then?

[The Distractor]

could you be referring to djgpp?

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/

[FoobyZeeky]

could you be referring to djgpp?

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/

Oh my God, you found it. I love this website.

Thanks a lot, dude!

[cosmonavt]

I remember using Borlands C++ Compiler in 2006. Also remember Turbo C++.

See this page: http://www.cprogramming.com/borland.html

[sergioag]

I remember using DJGPP when I needed massive amounts of memory, as it ran on protected mode. The downside was that any calls that I had to make to interrupt services (common back then), such as mouse, video, disk, etc... were painfully slow as it had to go to real mode to perform the call and back to protected mode afterwards to continue execution.

If I didn't had to use too much memory, I used Borland C++ 4.5. Was a good compiler back then, though it had its fair amount of bugs. Don't know if later versions were better though. You just couldn't get updated software too easy back then.

[winuser]

Was a good compiler back then, though it had its fair amount of bugs.

Yeah, i can tell you something in this subject. At my current job we are using embarcadero products (formerly borland). And hell yeah, it is full of bugs all over the place. You can find a bug in each particulary part of the IDE, in compiler and linker. This is my nightmare.

[imlol]

TurboC++ ??

[pittical]

I believe we've established it was DJGPP. Quite some time ago, too.