Re: GCC and the Visual Basic programmer....

2009-02-17 Thread Richard M Stallman
However, a proportion of code written for Visual C++ makes use of propriatery runtimes such as MFC, the runtime EULA of which 'currently' prevents the use of MFC based applications with a 'free' OS like ReactOS or GNU based toolchains... And even if it were permitted, it wou

Re: GCC and the Visual Basic programmer....

2009-02-16 Thread Vincent R.
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:03:36 +1100, Carl wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Farlie A > wrote: > >> In terms of Visual Basic code, there is of course no 'free' compiler for >> VB >> code written prior >> to VB.NET., and again the EULA for the runtime support would prevent use >> of >> the

Re: GCC and the Visual Basic programmer....

2009-02-16 Thread Carl
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Farlie A wrote: > In terms of Visual Basic code, there is of course no 'free' compiler for VB > code written prior > to VB.NET., and again the EULA for the runtime support would prevent use of > the Vendor's > runtime on 'free' systems.. > Should there be a way of

GCC and the Visual Basic programmer....

2009-02-16 Thread Farlie A
Hi, This is posted partly to start a disscussion, and partly as technical enquiry. Granted that this is not strictly GCC related, but in relation to the GGC toolchain. Before Java was GPL'ed , comments were made in relation to the so called 'Java' trap. There is also another 'pit' into