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Vista command line compiler

I'm looking for a command line compiler for C under Vista.

I've found a few IDE's but I'd like to use UltraEdit for writing it in. I'm open to other suggestions though.
Aug 17 '07 #1
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sicarie
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I'm looking for a command line compiler for C under Vista.

I've found a few IDE's but I'd like to use UltraEdit for writing it in. I'm open to other suggestions though.
You can run GCC through Cygwin.
Aug 17 '07 #2
weaknessforcats
9,208 Expert Mod 8TB
Visual Studio.NET is just a wrapper for cl.exe.

You can exceute cl.exe on the command line, set your own switches and write your own make files. Read up on nmake. Use .bat files.

This approach just does not work for a program of any complexity.
Aug 17 '07 #3
Visual Studio.NET is just a wrapper for cl.exe.

You can exceute cl.exe on the command line, set your own switches and write your own make files. Read up on nmake. Use .bat files.

This approach just does not work for a program of any complexity.
thanks but i'll be needing a little bit of complexity for this project.

I'm downloading gcc now, I'll see if I can get that working.

Edit:
I got it working by downloading Cygwin. Thanks.
Aug 17 '07 #4
RRick
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I'm going to raise a couple of warnings about cygwin. While it is very good for compiling source on the windows platform, for a development environment, it is at best: quirky.

You will find that cygwin window behavior is similar but different to windows. Cut and paste in the cygwin window is painful. The gdb debugger can't catch seg faults and always returns a corrupted stack. This means you can't let a program run in gdb until it blows up and look at the place it stopped. ddd worked "most" of the time but was slloooow to start up. Valgrind doesn't work at all.

I finally came to the conclusion that when in vista, do as the vistonians do. I would suggest finding some ide that is designed to work with windows. We use eclipse for Java development at work and I hear there is a C++ version (that I haven't used).

If you want to develop software on unix, I would suggest a dual boot or vmware configuration.
Aug 17 '07 #5
sicarie
4,677 Expert Mod 4TB
I'm going to raise a couple of warnings about cygwin. While it is very good for compiling source on the windows platform, for a development environment, it is at best: quirky.

You will find that cygwin window behavior is similar but different to windows. Cut and paste in the cygwin window is painful. The gdb debugger can't catch seg faults and always returns a corrupted stack. This means you can't let a program run in gdb until it blows up and look at the place it stopped. ddd worked "most" of the time but was slloooow to start up. Valgrind doesn't work at all.

I finally came to the conclusion that when in vista, do as the vistonians do. I would suggest finding some ide that is designed to work with windows. We use eclipse for Java development at work and I hear there is a C++ version (that I haven't used).

If you want to develop software on unix, I would suggest a dual boot or vmware configuration.
Thanks RRick. I've never done Windows programming, just used cygwin to get me until I was allowed to reimage my machine :).

I would agree that the VM through VMWare or Microsofts Virtual PC would be the way to go - rebooting into a dev machine can get old.
Aug 17 '07 #6

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