What windows developer to use to compile vnc

[James Harr]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Jonathan Morton started hitting the keyboard and typed:
> >Yeah, If you're going for high-speed stuff (well, VNC sorta counts as that),
> >VC++ is to prefer over VB. However VB is excellent when it comes to whipping
> >together misc. utilities to simplify normal tasks (I have a cpl of programs
> >running that move files across the network and such tasks), since the
> >programming is so straight-forward (i.e. "here is a button, this is what
> >will happen when I click it").
> >
> >On the downside, VB and it's controls isn't that fast. The "proxy" I wrote
> >before shows the limits of VB versus C++. A three-line function (get data
> >from winsock-control, check if it's the right user (one "if" statement),
> >send it to another winsock-control) really increases the latency
> >client->server. I haven't rewritten it using API calls yet, so I don't know
> >if it's VB or the control that slows things down, hence the "VB and it's
> >controls".
> >
> >However, I'd recommend VB to anyone who doesn't mind the speed limit. :)
> 
> I remember using VB to control a data-aquisition board in my HNC course a
> couple of years ago.  The Pentium-75 proved incapable of capturing more
> than 5 samples per second.  This performance would easily have been
> exceeded by a BBC Micro (based on a 2 MHz 6502), which probably wouldn't
> even have needed the aquisition board, but the interface wouldn't have
> looked so "pretty".
> 
> Put simply, VB is *slow*.
> 
> VC++ is better from the speed point of view, but yes it does take longer to
> hack together an app in it.  I don't really like Visual Studio's interface
> either (I'm forced to use it at university, ugh) - there is an alternative
> in MetroWerks CodeWarrior, but I don't know how hard it would be to convert
> the 'project files' that hold the VNC source together.

You can always use the command line interface for compiling under both..

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