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#1: Sep 26 '07
Hi All,
I am a university student doing a course which requires the use of C. I do most of the work from home so I have installed cygwin and gvim on XP as the recommended programming environments. I havnt yet been able to find a C compiler for cygwin but would prefer to use an IDE.
Can anyone direct me to a C IDE I can use? or if not can someone direct me to the C compiler for cygwin and give instructions on how to get it working? Its pretty urgent that I get this programming done so any help would be more than brilliant.

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#2: Sep 26 '07

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Hi All,
I am a university student doing a course which requires the use of C. I do most of the work from home so I have installed cygwin and gvim on XP as the recommended programming environments. I havnt yet been able to find a C compiler for cygwin but would prefer to use an IDE.
Can anyone direct me to a C IDE I can use? or if not can someone direct me to the C compiler for cygwin and give instructions on how to get it working? Its pretty urgent that I get this programming done so any help would be more than brilliant.

Why cant you try Bloodshed -Dev C++ .
It has a ide and use gcc/g++ internally.
Try whether taht suits u
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#3: Sep 26 '07

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Does that compile for C or just C++? Is it an IDE?
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Does that compile for C or just C++? Is it an IDE?

Both; yes.

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#5: Sep 26 '07

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Thanks all, Im just downloading the 9Mb 5.0 Beta version to have a crack at. Can anyone instruct me on the installation and download of the gcc compiler for cygwin? If not np.
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#6: Sep 26 '07

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Thanks all, Im just downloading the 9Mb 5.0 Beta version to have a crack at. Can anyone instruct me on the installation and download of the gcc compiler for cygwin? If not np.

Cygwin is interesting in that every time you want to install something, you go through the Setup.exe process. It'll look like you're re-installing, but it just does that to check for updates. Once you select your repository and everything, GCC and G++ should be in the Development menus.
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