Re: ESQL/C for windows

Patrick Chan wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I am a new informix user and hope you can give me some help. > > My company had purchased Informix online DS 7.20uc3, 4GL 6.04uc1, > ESQL/C5.01WJ2 and ESQL/C 7.20TD1. > > I read the ESQL/C programmer's manual5.01, it says esql supports both MS > Visual C++(Version 1.0) and Borland C(Version 3.1) but when I read the > manual7.20, it doesn't say which C-compiler it supports. I have some > experience in writing C under UNIX environment but very little in > windows, so I am not sure which C-compiler to buy. > > Since we have users of both window3.1 and win95, could you give me some > advice on choosing C-compiler that fit both ESQL/C 5.01 and 7.20? If > there isn't one fit both of them, which is good for each of them? > The Informix ESQL/C includes two sets of library files which are compiled codes of functions for database access. Basically, the prototyping and syntax of functions in both sets of files are equivalent and are defined in common header files. One set of the files is for Ms-Visual C++ and the other one is for Borland. No matter you use either of the compilers, you have to specify the path of the set of library files within the compiler. Kenneth Wong