[Tinycc-devel] Newcomer to TCC (and C) with a couple of questions..

[lostgallifreyan]

Hello. I've found I can start the way I like it, looking at header files to see 
what's defined, and tweaking the Windows example to see what results from 
careful changes. Best way to learn, because manuals won't help until I feel 
like I have a grasp on this. And it means I've seen that most answers I need 
will be to do with C rather than the compiler, but I do have one question that 
you might be answered here faster than any other way I can find out:

Can wxWidgets be used with TCC, and if so, can anyone point me to a clear guide 
on how to make them work together? This will be enormously helpful for fast 
development of a GUI-based program.



One other question, though perhaps this IS something to do with C and not the 
compiler but it's very important so I want to be sure:

Do the required deletions of device contexts (to spare GDI resources) get done 
by code compiled by TCC, or do I have to do this explicitly, as I do in wxLua, 
for example?



I ask because in wxLua, every colour, every pen and brush, is a DC that must be 
deleted the instant no longer required, yet the single GUI example supplied 
with TCC has a colour (COLORREF) for text colour that does not appear to have a 
specific deletion following it. In wxLua, you'd assign the created colour to a 
variable as a handle for its subsequent deletion the instant after the variable 
is read by whatever needs it. If this is a matter of C coding I'll trouble you 
with it no more, but please tell me it this IS to do with C coding, or whether 
the compiled code is such that it's done instantly, or by periodic garbage 
collection, or perhaps not at all unless I make it so.

I won't bombard you with questions, I prefer to find my own way, but I just 
asked two that are really important to me if I am to do that effectively, and I 
welcome any good clear help to get me clear on this.

That said, there IS one more small question. :) I asked in a private mail which 
got a reply directing me to this list, so here it is:
Any chance TCC will be extended to C++, or is that against the spirit of being 
small and neat, as it is now?