C++ Compiler for windows?

[rufus]

Is there a C++ compiler for windows that can be run from the commmandline? I
have only be able to find MS Visual Studio but its rather overkill since I
also like to just use notepad for my code.

[Jerry Coffin]

In article <3b2cca50-7a68-43ea-a884-505a92dc5ae9
@m3g2000hsc.goo glegroups.com>, ja*********@gma il.com says...

On Jul 13, 2:57 pm, Jerry Coffin <jcof...@taeus. comwrote:

[ ... ]

If you're primarily interested in developing Windows
applications and happen to use C++, MS is probably the best
choice -- but otherwise, it's probably the furthest from
conforming with the standard of those listed here.

Is that really true. The only other compiler on your list that
I've worked with is g++, and I'd rate recent versions of g++ and
VC++ fairly close; VC++ still has a few bugs with regards to
some of the more exotic uses of templates, but their library is
probably still slightly better than that of g++.

Unfortunately, yes, it's really true. Not because Microsoft's compiler
is really that far behind everybody else, but because what they include
with the SDK is version 13.1, where Visual Studio currently comes with
version 15.x.

That's not so old that its conformance is truly terrible or anything
like that, but it's still old enough that I'm pretty sure most of the
others are closer.

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Later,
Jerry.

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[Gennaro Prota]

Jerry Coffin wrote:

In article <3b2cca50-7a68-43ea-a884-505a92dc5ae9
@m3g2000hsc.goo glegroups.com>, ja*********@gma il.com says...

>On Jul 13, 2:57 pm, Jerry Coffin <jcof...@taeus. comwrote:

[ ... ]

>>If you're primarily interested in developing Windows
application s and happen to use C++, MS is probably the best
choice -- but otherwise, it's probably the furthest from
conforming with the standard of those listed here.

Is that really true. The only other compiler on your list that
I've worked with is g++, and I'd rate recent versions of g++ and
VC++ fairly close; VC++ still has a few bugs with regards to
some of the more exotic uses of templates, but their library is
probably still slightly better than that of g++.

Unfortunately, yes, it's really true. Not because Microsoft's compiler
is really that far behind everybody else, but because what they include
with the SDK is version 13.1, where Visual Studio currently comes with
version 15.x.

That's not so old that its conformance is truly terrible or anything
like that, but it's still old enough that I'm pretty sure most of the
others are closer.

Pretty sure of something you haven't probably tried in a while.
Compilers evolve... VC++ was far behind the competition until a few
years ago but it has made very fast progresses starting with 7.1
(=.NET 2003, MSC_VER=1310). Have you really tried Digital Mars? Last
time I did --a couple of years ago-- it was _completely_ brain dead;
unusable for anything but toy examples. See e.g. this incredible bug:

<http://www.digitalmars .com/d/archives/c++/beta/596.html>

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[James Kanze]

On Jul 13, 8:04 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" <[e-mail] wrote:

* James Kanze:

Which is a PITA, even if you're a Unix freak, like I am. If
I want Linux, I know where to get it, and the cost isn't a
deterrant. There's such a thing as an emulation being too
exact; if I'm working under Windows, it's because I need
simple and direct access to the Windows features, and things
like making me type in /cygdrive/c/... rather than just
c:/.. don't help:-). (The worst in this regard is MSys. If
an argument starts with a '/', and the executable isn't in
the MSys directory, it replaces the '/' with 'c:\msys\...'.
Which means that 'cl /help' provokes a very strange error
message about not being able to find the file
'c:\...\help'.)

He he.

Not so funny when you actually have to deal with the problem.

James, have you considered very very exact Microsoft's Windows
Services for Unix (SFU, formerly Interix IIRC) -- it's free,
or at least, was, a few years ago.

This is the first I've heard of it, but I'll look into it. (I'd
also like to try the MKS toolkit; I used it many, many years
back, under MS-DOS, and found it very good. But they've priced
it way out of my budget today.)

Thanks.

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