c/c++ compiler on windows

[Anand S Bisen]

Hello

Generally i write my programs in some sort of unix boxes, but now that i
got a laptop and i have windows xp running on top of that i was shopping
around for a decent c/c++ compiler. I can get visual studio .net 2002,
2003 or plain visual studio 6 free for download from my university but
they look pretty much over kill for what i do. I generally code in plain
ANSI C/C++ and i dont want to give huge disk space for just a compiler
and it's libraries.

I would really appreciate if somebody could point me to a c/c++ or even
fortran compiler IDE for windows that i can buy/download/etc.. for my
personal use.

Thanks

Anand

[Christian Bau]

In article <bv**********@hood.uits.indiana.edu>,
Anand S Bisen <ab****@example.com> wrote:

Hello

Generally i write my programs in some sort of unix boxes, but now that i
got a laptop and i have windows xp running on top of that i was shopping
around for a decent c/c++ compiler. I can get visual studio .net 2002,
2003 or plain visual studio 6 free for download from my university but
they look pretty much over kill for what i do. I generally code in plain
ANSI C/C++ and i dont want to give huge disk space for just a compiler
and it's libraries.

I would really appreciate if somebody could point me to a c/c++ or even
fortran compiler IDE for windows that i can buy/download/etc.. for my
personal use.

Try the Metrowerks Codewarrior compiler. I've got Codewarrior 6 for
Windows from a magazine cover (version 8 or 9 is probably current and
costs real money), and for writing C or C++ code even that essentially
free version is pure heaven compared to .Net.

Or try the Watcom compiler. C, C++ and Fortran, and all free including
source code. I haven't tried any of them yet :-)

[KTC]

Anand S Bisen <ab****@example.com> for some reason wrote:

Hello

Generally i write my programs in some sort of unix boxes, but
now that i got a laptop and i have windows xp running on top of
that i was shopping around for a decent c/c++ compiler. I can
get visual studio .net 2002, 2003 or plain visual studio 6 free
for download from my university but they look pretty much over
kill for what i do. I generally code in plain ANSI C/C++ and i
dont want to give huge disk space for just a compiler and it's
libraries.

I would really appreciate if somebody could point me to a c/c++
or even fortran compiler IDE for windows that i can
buy/download/etc.. for my personal use.

Thanks

Anand

Digital Mars C/C++
http://www.digitalmars.com/

Open Watcom C/C++ & Fortan
http://www.openwatcom.org/

Borland C/C++ 5.5 command line
http://www.borland.com/products/down..._cbuilder.html

Dev-C++ (Uses MinGW or Cygwin)
http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/devcpp.html

http://www.mingw.org/

http://www.cygwin.com/

--
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- Heinrich Heine

[Mac]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:24:11 +0000, Anand S Bisen wrote:

Hello

Generally i write my programs in some sort of unix boxes, but now that i
got a laptop and i have windows xp running on top of that i was shopping
around for a decent c/c++ compiler. I can get visual studio .net 2002,
2003 or plain visual studio 6 free for download from my university but
they look pretty much over kill for what i do. I generally code in plain
ANSI C/C++ and i dont want to give huge disk space for just a compiler
and it's libraries.

I would really appreciate if somebody could point me to a c/c++ or even
fortran compiler IDE for windows that i can buy/download/etc.. for my
personal use.

Thanks

Anand

This is really not topical on clc. I doubt it is topical for clc++,
either.

Look into cygwin or mingw.

Mac

[Rob Thorpe]

Anand S Bisen <ab****@example.com> wrote in message news:<bv**********@hood.uits.indiana.edu>...

Hello

Generally i write my programs in some sort of unix boxes, but now that i
got a laptop and i have windows xp running on top of that i was shopping
around for a decent c/c++ compiler. I can get visual studio .net 2002,
2003 or plain visual studio 6 free for download from my university but
they look pretty much over kill for what i do. I generally code in plain
ANSI C/C++ and i dont want to give huge disk space for just a compiler
and it's libraries.

I would really appreciate if somebody could point me to a c/c++ or even
fortran compiler IDE for windows that i can buy/download/etc.. for my
personal use.

Try the cygwin distribution (www.cygwin.com), this allows you to
compile many programs written for Unix on Windows as it contains many
off the relevant system calls. There is also GNU Fortran 77 in the
distribution.

Also if you download the mingw libraries included with it you can
compile native programs.

This will take up ~100MB disk space, if you want slightly less try
mingw on it' s own www.mingw.com.

[DavidG]

Try the Borland command line compiler. I also suggest maybe a good text
editor like Crimson Editor or whatever you like. I don't program too
much on Windows, but when I do, that's the combo I use.

Anand S Bisen wrote:

Hello

Generally i write my programs in some sort of unix boxes, but now that i
got a laptop and i have windows xp running on top of that i was shopping
around for a decent c/c++ compiler. I can get visual studio .net 2002,
2003 or plain visual studio 6 free for download from my university but
they look pretty much over kill for what i do. I generally code in plain
ANSI C/C++ and i dont want to give huge disk space for just a compiler
and it's libraries.

I would really appreciate if somebody could point me to a c/c++ or even
fortran compiler IDE for windows that i can buy/download/etc.. for my
personal use.

Thanks

Anand

[Randy Howard]

In article <ch*********************************@slb-newsm1.svr.pol.co.uk>,
ch***********@cbau.freeserve.co.uk says...

I would really appreciate if somebody could point me to a c/c++ or even
fortran compiler IDE for windows that i can buy/download/etc.. for my
personal use.

Try the Metrowerks Codewarrior compiler.

Ugh. I think this is one of the most abysmal IDE / compiler environments
currently in production. The fact that you got it free doesn't make it
much better. Especially, when the Bloodshed Dev-C++/gcc package is
also free, and far better.

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

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Randy Howard
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[Buck Rogers]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:24:11 -0500, Anand S Bisen <ab****@example.com>
wrote:

Hello

Generally i write my programs in some sort of unix boxes, but now that i
got a laptop and i have windows xp running on top of that i was shopping
around for a decent c/c++ compiler. I can get visual studio .net 2002,
2003 or plain visual studio 6 free for download from my university but
they look pretty much over kill for what i do. I generally code in plain
ANSI C/C++ and i dont want to give huge disk space for just a compiler
and it's libraries.

I would really appreciate if somebody could point me to a c/c++ or even
fortran compiler IDE for windows that i can buy/download/etc.. for my
personal use.

Thanks

Anand

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

Buck.

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[Chris Mantoulidis]

Anand S Bisen <ab****@example.com> wrote in message news:<bv**********@hood.uits.indiana.edu>...

Hello

Generally i write my programs in some sort of unix boxes, but now that i
got a laptop and i have windows xp running on top of that i was shopping
around for a decent c/c++ compiler. I can get visual studio .net 2002,
2003 or plain visual studio 6 free for download from my university but
they look pretty much over kill for what i do. I generally code in plain
ANSI C/C++ and i dont want to give huge disk space for just a compiler
and it's libraries.

I would really appreciate if somebody could point me to a c/c++ or even
fortran compiler IDE for windows that i can buy/download/etc.. for my
personal use.

Thanks

Anand

DJGPP: http://www.delorie.com/djgpp
CygWin: http://www.cygwin.com/
MinGW: http://www.mingw.org/

Have fun :)