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Tails
04-03-2003, 09:30 PM
I have the Dev C++ compiler and it doesn't work! It doesn't recognize files in their paths or can do anything useful. What is the best and most popular freeware tools for learning C++? I don't want program specific tutorials like vbc++ because I can't afford that. It's the language I want to learn and use.
Jason
04-03-2003, 10:38 PM
gcc is free for linux....don't know about windows though...


Jason
Tails
04-03-2003, 10:44 PM
DOS and Windows are my targets. I never used much else.
Jason
04-03-2003, 10:51 PM
here, they talked about this question before....this is the link
http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12782&highlight=compiler



Jason
joh6nn
04-03-2003, 10:53 PM
i'm pretty sure this is the right link. i think you want the one that says just "compiler." if that doesn't seem to be the right one, search the site for the command line tools; they're free

http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_cbuilder.html
Tails
04-03-2003, 11:01 PM
geez, I can't even understand their install instructions. They should really work on their clarity.
moonstone
04-06-2003, 04:59 PM
http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/courses/cmpe150/spring2003/01c/downloads.html

there are two compilers here. above one is for c and below one is for both c and c++.
Tails
04-07-2003, 09:16 PM
So, um, which is better? C or C++? I thought they were one and the same. Tutorials I saw don't distinguish the difference anyway.
liorean
04-07-2003, 10:42 PM
It really depends on what you want to do. C++ is object oriented and more capable. C is simpler and compiles to something that runs slightly faster.

Most compilers are C/C++ and possibly even Objective C all-in-one compilers.



Oh, and if you think BCC is hard to understand the installation instructions of, I would guess your best shot is a commercial program - BCC is the easiest to install of the free compilers BCC, DJGPP and MinGW32. Cygwin is easier to install but far worse to get to do what you want in. (Best is if you use the bash interface to it.)

Oh well, I'm not that much into the C/C++ world anyway - you better ask someone that has done anything more advanced than a my CLI pocket-calculator program that was the most advanced I wrote while playing around in the language.