Question

I cant seem to locate a free c/c++ compiler that I can use to play with. Any ideas where a simple downloadable compiler is located?

Or at least a decent online compiler?

Answer 1

what do you mean with decent
http://www.onlinecompiler.net/ coul help

Answer 2

Windows or linux? On linux you have gcc.

Answer 3

windows, using public library for the most part

Answer 4

that one looks great :) simple, easy to see, not alot of bells and whistles to try to work thru lol thnx :)

Answer 5

On Windows you can use GCC as well, through mingw: http://www.mingw.org/ . You can *also* use GCC through Windows via cygwin http://www.cygwin.com/ . Cygwin attempts to set up a full UNIX environment on top of Windows, completely with bash.

Answer 6

Use GCC and G++ which is best compiler.Python/Ruby interpreters use them.Most companies use this free software.It is cross platform.

Answer 7

http://www.bloodshed.net/
Dev-C++

Answer 8

devc++ was the first i tried, but couldnt figure out how to actually get a download :)

trying the mingy thing now

Answer 9

It was my problem, too. LOL

Answer 10

Devc++ is an ide. It uses mingw for it's compiler which is a port of gnu's gcc compiler to the windows operating system.

Answer 11

But you don't need an ide to compile stuff and you can use mingw standalone.

Answer 12

Thank you Polpak:)

Answer 13

As for downloading devc++ it's hosted on sourceforge.net:

The download page is here:
http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/devcpp.html

They have downloads for version 5(beta) or version 4 and you'll probably want the one that includes mingw.

Answer 14

in linux you don't have to download anything :)

Answer 15

well i get something with the ming lol, needs instructions tho :)

Answer 16

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Answer 17

That's just a shell. Not the compiler.

Answer 18

I strongly suggest uninstalling mingw and just get and install the devcpp ide with mingw included. It should set things up much more nicely and in a way that may be more familiar to you.

Answer 19

oh I like the shell, more my speed :) The website says that I can write code in like notepad, save it as .cpp and compile it on the shell i believe

Answer 20

Yes, you can do that certainly. If you just want a nice editor without the ide I like notepad++ for windows.

Answer 21

the ming works great; all i gotta do now is learn proper c++ and I should be good :) thnx yall

Answer 22

g++ [filename.cpp] -o [filename.exe]

turns on the compiler, and if it dont like your work, it tells you :)

Answer 23

Lemme know if you need help with the C++
=)

Answer 24

Use VIsual Studio C++ 2010 Express or VS 2010 Express, just download the web downloader, and this will install all the pellet you need :D It is faster coding here rather in a shell where doesn't tell ya pellet what's going on :p

Answer 25

Why would you want to debase my intelligence by suggesting that I would want to have anything to do with feces?

Answer 26

Yeah, it's fair to start with notepad, but you should graduate to a real editor or IDE within... Oh... Two or three days of effort. IDEs/editors aren't crutches, they're indispensable tools.

If you're all about the console, you can use vim, which installs via cygwin or as a native Windows version at ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc/gvim73_46.exe or a variant that will be easier to get started with at http://cream.sourceforge.net/download.html . These are editors that were originally designed for the console (though they have GUI version as well). vim has been my bread and butter for many years, and is what I currently use to do all my development (with some various plugins).

Others swear by IDEs. In that space, it may be worth trying Eclipse's C/C++ development tools at http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-cc-developers-includes-incubating-components/indigor . I haven't used it too much myself. In my time developing in C++/Qt, I used KDevelop ( http://kdevelop.org/ ). You can use http://windows.kde.org/ to get it on Windows; I haven't used the latest versions much, but they're supposed to have pretty awesome tools. Additionally, towards the tail end, the makers of the Qt C++ GUI toolkit released their own IDE called Qt Creator. You can find it at http://qt.nokia.com/products/developer-tools . I haven't played with it that much.

If and when you go hunting with how to build a GUI in C++, I would highly recommend Qt. I have yet to find a better GUI framework in any language, really, and whenever I did GUI work in other languages I would try to use Qt bindings for it.

Answer 27

you shoul try turbo c