[Developers] Do you use Borlands compiler? we are considering dropping it.

[Ian Taylor]

I assume that the set of people using both Rtools and ADMB is both small
and fairly savvy, so they should have no problem following some
instructions that we (Arni?) create for avoiding such conflicts.

Borland support sounds dead. Long live ADMB!
-Ian

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Arni Magnusson <arnima at hafro.is> wrote:

> Having more than one C++ compiler on the same machine can be problematic,
> but there are two ways to go about it.
>
> 1. Call me nuts, but I currently have 19 different C++ compilers on my
> machine. The best way to "switch" between compilers is to write tiny simple
> scripts (like gcc462.bat) that set the environment variables required by
> each compiler (only PATH in the case of GCC). Typing 'gcc462' in a shell
> will then activate that compiler for that shell session.
>
> For test purposes, I also have 10 ADMB installations on the same machine,
> switching between ADMB versions using the same shell scripts. If you
> collect shell commands (coreutils etc.) you may also need to keep those
> from conflicting, again by using shell scripts.
>
> We can add a short sentence about this to the ADMB installation readme,
> pointing to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Environment_variable<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable>and
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Batch_file<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_file>
> .
>
> 2. If you want to make life easy, keep only one C++ compiler on your
> machine. If the GCC compiler that came with Rtools is making life
> difficult, remove it. When you install Rtools you can uncheck the "R
> toolchain" option.
>
> ---
>
> If you're looking for a C++ compiler for Windows, http://admb-project.org/
> **community/related-software/gcc<http://admb-project.org/community/related-software/gcc>has a few, originally provided by MinGW and Rtools.
>
> Arni
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Mark Maunder wrote:
>
>  The non-conflict with rtools was one reason to keep it, but I am not sure
>> if that remains a problem with the other compilers.
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Ian Taylor
>> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 3:08 PM
>> To: Mark Maunder
>> Cc: developers at admb-project.org
>> Subject: Re: Do you use Borlands compiler? we are considering dropping it.
>>
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> What was the conclusion of your survey about the Borland compiler?
>>
>> I'm working on improving the installation instructions and would happily
>> leave off anything about Borland.
>>
>> -Ian
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Mark Maunder wrote:
>>
>> Can you please send us an e-mail letting us know if you use the Borland
>> 5.5 compiler for your ADMB or ADMB-re modeling and why you prefer to use
>> the Borland compiler. Maintaining this compiler has some issues so we are
>> considering dropping it.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Mark
>>
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