Windows Compiler Recommendations

Hi,

I am taking introductory C++ in college, and we use MS Visual C++ in
class. :-(

I want to be independent from Microsoft (or as independent as I can be
while developing on Windows!) Are there any good, easy-to-use GNU
compilers for windows? What do you recommend?

Thanks,
Derek

Derek wrote:
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> Are there any good, easy-to-use GNU
> compilers for windows? What do you recommend?[/color]

http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

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Derek wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I am taking introductory C++ in college, and we use MS Visual C++ in
> class. :-(
>
> I want to be independent from Microsoft (or as independent as I can be
> while developing on Windows!) Are there any good, easy-to-use GNU
> compilers for windows? What do you recommend?
>
> Thanks,
> Derek[/color]

Yeah...

mingw is a direct port,
cygwin is a POSIX port, which then ports the tools using POSIX.

mingw is faster and more minimal
cygwin has everything you would expect in a Linux distribution

Both have shells (sh, bash) ported to windows.

The Bloodshed DevC++ mentioned by the other poster uses mingw by
default, but it can be set up to use cygwin.

DevC++ is open source and cross platform, so the same development
environment can theoretically be used on many platforms (nice)

Good luck,
Brian

King Leo - Martin Oberzalek wrote:
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> Derek wrote:
>
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>>Are there any good, easy-to-use GNU
>>compilers for windows? What do you recommend?[/color]
>
>
> http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html[/color]

Personally, I find MinGW Developer Studio to be superior:

http://www.parinya.ca/

Plus it's available for both Windows and Linux if that's of interest.

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Mike Smith

"Brian Genisio" <BrianGenisio@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:40042c4e$1@10.10.0.241...

i will also recommend gnu c++ on cygwin. have never had any major issues
for a wide variety of projects.
also you might find the bin utilities helpful.

-bryan
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> Derek wrote:
>[color=green]
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am taking introductory C++ in college, and we use MS Visual C++ in
> > class. :-(
> >
> > I want to be independent from Microsoft (or as independent as I can be
> > while developing on Windows!) Are there any good, easy-to-use GNU
> > compilers for windows? What do you recommend?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Derek[/color]
>
> Yeah...
>
> mingw is a direct port,
> cygwin is a POSIX port, which then ports the tools using POSIX.
>
> mingw is faster and more minimal
> cygwin has everything you would expect in a Linux distribution
>
> Both have shells (sh, bash) ported to windows.
>
> The Bloodshed DevC++ mentioned by the other poster uses mingw by
> default, but it can be set up to use cygwin.
>
> DevC++ is open source and cross platform, so the same development
> environment can theoretically be used on many platforms (nice)
>
> Good luck,
> Brian
>[/color]