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Little-Acorn · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 111 Location: San Diego

Title says it all.

I've used the Silverfrost Ftn95 compiler quite a lot, including its Windows extension, to write Windows programs.

I've seen a few references to a Salford C++ compiler. Is there one?

Or a Salford or Silverfrost C compiler?

PaulLaidler · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 9:22 am Post subject:

Yes. It is scc.exe and can be found in the same folder as ftn95.exe.
It is accessible from a command line or from Plato. See the Plato Help menu.

LitusSaxonicum · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 11:27 am Post subject:

To amplify Paul's answer, you may find certain difficulties accessing the CWPSCC.HLP and SCC.HLP help files if you are using Windows 7. This has certainly been discussed elsewhere in the forum, and it is because Microsoft has stopped providing the old help file reader. You can still download it, but there may be limitations on what runs under 64-bit Win 7.

Google suggests that there are various programs out there to convert HLP to CHM directly.

Eddie

Little-Acorn · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 111 Location: San Diego

Son of a gun, it was there all the time!

I started it under Plato, and put in the simple little "Hello World" program:

-------------------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
printf("Hello, world! \n\n");
}
-------------------------------------------

...without the dotted lines, of course. Tried to run it, and got the Plato error: "ERROR: SCC is Win32 only."

This is on my Windows Vista laptop.

I'm probably doing something very basic, wrong. Any hints?

I also looked through the HELP a little, looks useful.

Is there any kind of a manual for the SCC compiler, and/or its use in Plato, other than this HELP function?

davidb · Joined: 17 Jul 2009 Posts: 560 Location: UK

Do you have a 32 bit or a 64 bit version of Vista?
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LitusSaxonicum · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2012 11:18 pm Post subject:

... and are you trying to build a .NET executable?

Eddie

Little-Acorn · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 111 Location: San Diego

Little-Acorn · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 111 Location: San Diego

davidb · Joined: 17 Jul 2009 Posts: 560 Location: UK

Little-Acorn · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 111 Location: San Diego

Thank you, David! Gave it a try. Unfortunately, I got the same error again, even after doing the Compatibility-mode command as you described.

"ERROR: SCC is Win32 only."

I'll try it again soon.

Little-Acorn · Joined: 06 Jul 2008 Posts: 111 Location: San Diego

This time I tried it again, telling the downstairs Windows 7 computer to run BOTH Plato and scc.exe, compatibly with WinXP SP2.

It worked! At least, it ran the little "Hello world" program!

Thank you for the help - it paid off!

PaulLaidler · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 9:14 am Post subject:

SCC is Win32 only so you need to select one of the Win32 configurations from the Combo box on the toolbar of Plato. These are "Checkmate Win32", "Debug Win32" and "Release Win32".

LitusSaxonicum · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2012 1:07 pm Post subject:

i.e. not one of the .NET options ....

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