Preserved Topic: VC++ vs C++ (Page 1 of 1)

does anyone know what the differences between c++ and vc++ are? I need to make dll's for games i make in directX in Visual Basic.

Now Im probably way off here but I was always under the impression that C++ was just the code, an Visual C++ was the software to actually make the code run and transform it into machine...

I think they are different languages, but maybe they are similar.

If by vc++, you mean visual c++, jestah's right, Visual Studio is just another compiler like gnu or borland. It was specifically made for windows. A "normal" program in visual c++ links to a bunch of libraries needed to run in a windows environment. You can write code without these libraries, but it will run in a dos box.

Code wise, they should both follow the ansi c++ standard, like all compilers, with a few exceptions. What those exceptions are depends on the compiler implementation and you just have to figure out what that is.

What about C# (C sharp), MS's newest creation. That language will be used in their upcoming .NET platform...

C# !? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!@#!

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[peer], C# is not a joke, believe me...

mr.maX

[This message has been edited by mr.maX (edited 02-05-2001).]

i heard about c# a while ago, but i'll probably using vb6 and maybe visual c++ because i'm just a student, ya know i'm kinda short on the money thing.

I was just gonna use vc++(if it'll work that way) to make dll's for math in games since vb can be slow even with dx.

Viusal C++ is just MircoSoft's implementation of C++. As usual, they have add a few things they wanted and left out a few things they didn't want to impliment.

You can think of Visual C++ as being C++.

JakeB, you know you can write dll's in vb also.

Max, C# is gonna be sweet, I hope it catches on (like I even have to hope).

-D

i didn't know you could. Are they faster if made with c?

Note that VB5 and later are much, much faster than previous incarnations of VB. It now compiles down to code that is comperable in speed to VC++ (not quite as fast, but close). You have to avoid using certain things in VB, though. VB string handling, for instance, is not very efficient at all.

Visual C++ is indeed Microsoft's C++ compiler. It is customized to the Windows environment (all C++ compilers have to be targetted to a specific platform). You can generate simple apps/dlls, the same as any other ANSI C++ compiler would do, or you can make them with all of Microsoft's MFC bells and whistles. MFC is usually easier to develop, but tends to make for bloated code.

A simple dialog app using MFC might take up 200kb. The same program, made with ATL libraries, might take up 20kb.

A VB app, for comparison, would take up 20kb PLUS the VB runtime libraries (2.5MB, about). All VB programs on the machine can share the runtime, though.