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294 12. Tools, Libraries and Templates for VR
12.2.2 Compilers
If one is developing for Windows, without question Microsoft’s Visual C++
compiler is the most commonly used tool. In fact, the compiler itself is offered
free of charge b y Internet download from Microsoft [7]. The Application and
Class “Wizards” in Visual C++ make for rapid and relatively pain-free devel-
opment, and all our working programs will provide the appropriate Solution
and Project files for Visual C++ Version 6 or Visual S tudio.NET.
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The GNU
C++ compiler [4] has been successfully ported to Windows, but on Linux
and UNIX systems it is the only real option. Apart from the ...