Native Windows Application Development Options

Question

Long winded title, short question:

If one wants to develop for Windows but not have to rely on any external dependency (no runtime, thus ruling out .net), what suppo

Answer 1

Vala (compiles to ANSI C)

Answer 2

Awk using awka*

(*note: awka interprets awk, and generates ANSI C, which can be compiled to native code with any C compiler).

Answer 3

MASM32 ( http://masm32.com/ ) if you can live with the licensing agreement.

Answer 4

Prolog using Visual Prolog

Answer 5

Mercury using the Mercury compiler (compiles to ANSI C, which can then be compiled to native code)

Answer 6

Have a look at this -

http://www.codegear.com/products/delphi

Glynn