The free Borland command line C++ compiler isn't able to be downloaded from their website any longer. This may be unintentional: following the download instructions takes you to (what used to be) a survey page which 404s. Several people have left irritated comments for Borland in their forums.

Googling turned up a number of copies loose on the web; one can be found at the bottom of http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~rikblok/software/r2dtoo/help/api/index.html. Use at your own risk (legal and otherwise).

(What's the perl relevance? This is one of the supported compilers for building perl on Windows. Why would you use it instead of MinGW or Visual C? No idea; I'm doing so because I'm mucking about with the build process and want to see what I'm breaking.)

I'm looking for a job.

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Re: Windows free BCC compiler gone astray
by Util (Priest) on Feb 26, 2007 at 05:57 UTC

    I still have my notes from 2004-07-21, when I downloaded the compiler and debugger for Parrot work. At that time, the MD5 checksums were: 

      Z:\>md5sum -b *
  af5938e97b212fcddf228c5ff3a23c53 *freecommandLinetools.exe
  c2f133aed6f720863258bb2dc4a862de *TurboDebugger.exe

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    the sizes were: 
      07/21/2004  07:03a           8,935,988 freecommandLinetools.exe
  07/21/2004  07:03a             603,999 TurboDebugger.exe

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    and the locations were: 
      ftp://ftpd.borland.com/download/bcppbuilder/freecommandLinetools.exe
  ftp://ftpd.borland.com/download/bcppbuilder/TurboDebugger.exe

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    I see that exactly the same files are downloadable from the same locations: 

      Z:\>curl -I ftp://ftpd.borland.com/download/bcppbuilder/{freecommand
+Linetools,TurboDebugger}.exe
  --_curl_--ftp://ftpd.borland.com/download/bcppbuilder/freecommandLin
+etools.exe
  Last-Modified: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:40:46 GMT
  Content-Length: 8935988
  --_curl_--ftp://ftpd.borland.com/download/bcppbuilder/TurboDebugger.
+exe
  Last-Modified: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 17:23:19 GMT
  Content-Length: 603999

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    but are simply invisible to listing. I re-downloaded them, and the MD5 checksums matched my old copies.

    Please follow Borland's own path to the files as far as possible (register, take the survey, etc), and use the direct links only when Borland's redirects are failing. I know that ysth has already done so, but Super Search might lead future monks back to this node, and we should respect the wishes of the company that is providing the free tools.

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Re: Windows free BCC compiler gone astray
by diotalevi (Canon) on Feb 21, 2007 at 07:08 UTC

    Bummer! I got some really good stuff done with this when I needed a free C++ compiler on Windows.

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Re: Windows free BCC compiler gone astray
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 21, 2007 at 14:46 UTC
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