Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express addition

Seeker

Im trying to teach myself C++ yet I cant find the right options to compile the program. I did some C++ years ago using metrowerks codewarrior and found them easy to use with options like "Compile" "Link " "Run" etc. I cant find any of these options in VC++ express addition. I just want to run a simple "Hello World" program yet im having trouble at this stage.

Could someone show me by going through itstep by step.
(Or is there a free , easy to use compiler available)
Thanks
Seeker

jhegarty

gcc is old school complier you want.

marktsang

press f7 to compile -
i guess it depends on what you want to do as to what compiler you should use - if your programming for windows you may have to use vc++

i also use codeblocks - it uses gcc as above and is cross platform

nobodythere

F5 will build and run it IIRC

Ginger

Hello World in VS2005 http://www.codepedia.com/1/VisualCpp2005HelloWorld

EvilMonkey

In VS2005 check that you have the build and debug toolbars enabled, but as others have said F7 to compile, F5 to run/debug, Ctrl+F5 to run.

Seeker

Thanks for that page Ginger.

I've followeed that page step by step - yet im still getting errors.

"This project is out of date" - comes up

Underneath that it says - "myProg Debug Win32"
"Would you like to build it?"

If I click yes - " There were build errors, Would you like to continue and run the last successful build?"

I click yes and "Unable to start program c:\cpp\myProg\debug\myProg.exe"
comes up.

nobodythere

I found visual studio to be a nightmare for C++ though it's pretty good for .NET - obscure errors and by the time I had finished using it I had so many workarounds going. If possible consider switching over to Eclipse

Ginger

Seeker wrote: »

Thanks for that page Ginger.

I've followeed that page step by step - yet im still getting errors.

"This project is out of date" - comes up

Underneath that it says - "myProg Debug Win32"
"Would you like to build it?"

If I click yes - " There were build errors, Would you like to continue and run the last successful build?"

I click yes and "Unable to start program c:\cpp\myProg\debug\myProg.exe"
comes up.

Dont include the 1 and 2 in the #include statements they look like line numbers

But here is a visual walkthrough

http://www.cmcollins.net/content/view/20/26/

Remember visual c++.NET is different from standard C++

stephenlane80

gcc is your best option for simplicity to start with, you can install it with cygwin pretty easily, lets say you want to compile hello world all you need to do is: g++ HelloWorld.cpp

then to run the program you use : ./HelloWorld.exe

you need the "./" casue cygwin is a unix terminal ans need fully quallified file names.

here is a link which shows how to setup cygwin: http://www.arachnoid.com/cpptutor/setup_windows.html

Seeker

I just found out what was going wrong ( poxy # was missing).
Thanks everyone for your help.