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I have never used borland compilers, but I can tell you this. You will need a compiler that can build win32 PE (portable executable) files. You don't have to purchase anything (but you can if you want). You can search google for "Win32 compiler" and should get plenty of results. You will also need to get header files that declare/define all the stuff you will need for windows. MinGW is an example. You will then need to make your compiler link to the necessary library that windows provides, such as user32.dll. This is the free (and legal) way to do it. You can also use borland (one of the versions that supports windows PE ofcourse), or a microsoft product (ie. Visual Studio, which you can currently get a free version of Visual C++ Express). There are many different ways you can make a windows application (and I am just talking C++ right now), too. There is first, plain win32 programming. But higher level options exist like MFC, .net (both from micro$oft), etc. Hope that helps
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