[Insight-users] Borland C++ 5.6 (BCB 6)

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Anders,


There have been several users who attempted to adapt ITK for
the Borland 6 compiler. They have reported their results to
the list and can probably be summarized as

     1) A lot of changes are required.
     2) Some of the subdirectories cannot be converted.
     3) They decided to move to another compiler.


You may want to search the archives of the list in order
to find about the details of their reports. The fundamental
problem is that the Borland 6 compiler offers poor support
for generic programming.

We already sacrified the use of 'enums' for representing
integeres just because Borland 5.5 was not managing them
correctly.


At this point it seems unlikely that Borland 6 will make it
to the list of supported compilers. You may want to consider
using any of the many compilers supported by ITK.


Please let us know if you have further questions,


    Thaks


      Luis


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Anders Vestbo wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a general question about Itk and Borland C++ Builder 6. As I have 
> understood from previous postings to this list, and also from briefly 
> testing myself, the current version of Itk does not compile with the 
> Borland C++ 5.6 compiler (i.e. the one that comes with Borland C++ 
> Builder 6). My question is whether anyone are addressing this issue, 
> and/or whether anyone out there are interested in making itk compile 
> with this compiler at all? I did not put enough effort in this yet to 
> get an overview of the amount of changes that needs to be incorporated 
> in itk to get it working, but maybe someone can provide me with some 
> input on this?
> 
> anders