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c compiler for windows

JIZZLORD · 2005-10-29 14:32:02

i need a c compiler for windows, any ideas...

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i need a c compiler for windows, any ideas...

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#2 29-10-2005 3:35pm
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http://www.google.ie/search?q=c+compiler+for+windows

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#3 29-10-2005 3:37pm
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Dev C++ is a good IDE/compiler package.

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#4 30-10-2005 2:38am
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The Corinthian wrote:

http://www.google.ie/search?q=c+compiler+for+windows

Dam Straight

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Oh yea I think its very funny some1 with a signature written in binary asking about what compilers are best. Unless of course you have only ever programmed in unix using assembly then its a valid question.

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#5 30-10-2005 11:18am
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Telling someone to just google for an answer isnt exactly keeping with the spirit of boards.ie now is it?

I reccomend Digital Mars C compiler, its very basic but i've never had any probs with it.

http://downloads.zdnet.co.uk/0,39025604,39054693s,00.htm

I think its very funny some1 with a signature written in binary asking about what compilers are best. Unless of course you have only ever programmed in unix using assembly then its a valid question.

whats funny?

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#6 30-10-2005 12:33pm
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canker wrote:

Telling someone to just google for an answer isnt exactly keeping with the spirit of boards.ie now is it?

On the subject of people being too lazy to do a simple search, have you bothered to read the charter here before whinging about the “spirit of boards.ie”?

“What we are, unapologetically, is hostile to people who seem to be unwilling to think or to do their own homework before asking questions.”

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#7 30-10-2005 2:18pm
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Charter shmarter.

Of course I could be totally wrong but I assumed the original poster could search for a compiler without help but wanted some advice based on our experience.

Giving the benifit of the doubt ... maybe that should be in the charter

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#8 30-10-2005 2:31pm
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If you're looking for a fast professional-grade well-supported fully-featured compiler, then gcc is what you need. It's also cross-platform, so learning it once will allow you to reuse your knowledge on Unix.

It's free too.

See : http://gcc.gnu.org/

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#9 30-10-2005 2:51pm
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canker wrote:

Of course I could be totally wrong but I assumed the original poster could search for a compiler without help but wanted some advice based on our experience.

Then he/she should have specified this. We're not playing 20 Questions.

My response gave him/her the answer to the question he/she asked. If this is not what he/she was looking for then he/she can refine his/her question and ask again. This would mean that he/she would then get his/her answer and have learned to be more specific in future when asking a question and I wouldn’t have to waste my time explaining this again to another would-be white knight. Everyone wins.

If he was too lazy to Google, on the other hand, then my response was mild.

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#10 30-10-2005 3:27pm
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Whatever, I dont care really, just trying to be nice

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#11 30-10-2005 3:31pm
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OfflerCrocGod wrote:

Dev C++ is a good IDE/compiler package.

i agree brilliant free compiler

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#12 31-10-2005 12:57pm
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sorry for being quite vague originally. i was used to linux but, i needed a compiler for when i was back home, i'd googled compilers, but the one i went for left me unimpressed, basically, it didnt work!
thanks for the advice

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#13 01-11-2005 1:26am
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No worries - as suggested I'd go for Dev C++ if I were you. It's a GCC port with a nice IDE.

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#14 01-11-2005 1:37am
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The Corinthian wrote:

No worries - as suggested I'd go for Dev C++ if I were you. It's a GCC port with a nice IDE.

I concur.

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#15 02-11-2005 12:43am
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Alternatively, Microsoft make the Visual C++ compiler (tho not Visual C++ itself) available free; it has an impressively horrid command-line interface, but otherwise works reasonably.

And as to quality of OP; it could be far worse...

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#16 02-11-2005 12:58am
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Been using Visual C++ 6.0 since it came out, six or eight years ago and have had no significant problems to report with it; mind you, I don't have religious problems with microsoft; ymmv.

VC++ 2005 was rtm'd a few days back -- I installed a beta last week, but didn't spend much time with it. Seemed mostly ok in the hour or two that I fiddled with it.

And its command line interface? Considerably less horrid than gcc's!

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#17 02-11-2005 1:03am
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robindch wrote:

And its command line interface? Considerably less horrid than gcc's!

*blinks*

You've USED it, right?

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#18 02-11-2005 9:57pm
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I've heard good things about Code::Blocks.

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#19 03-11-2005 4:31pm
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> You've USED it, right?

Yep, quite a bit actually. No problems. Mind you, I am using JPsoft's 4nt command processor instead of the weak-kneed cmd.exe...

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