Hi, I posted yesterday with some questions about creating screensavers and asking for advice on good compilers on a really tight budget. Someone nicely wrote in and gave me a link. I was at the library then, and I couldn't save it. When I got on the computer again this morning, my thread was gone, and so was the link. I may be posting again with more questions about screensavers, but until then- can anybody tell me where to get a good compiler?
Dev-C++
It is a C++ compiler but if you make sure that you save as a .c not a .cpp it compiles in C.
~Sven
re: identifier-less:
>...good compilers on a really tight budget...
On what platform?
If you are running Win32 then try Bloodshed DevCpp IDE... it comes with the Mingw gcc Win32 port compiler, Editor, etc. and it is free of charge.
www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html
On Linux with KDE's or GNOME's there is KDevelop and Eclipse... and gcc or g++ ofcource
(both are open source software)
I think that the main site here has very good info about this...
read it
Re: Sven:
...Wow you're fast
I don't have any idea what I'm running. I need to learn C, and C ++, and it looks like I'll be teaching myself from a book. I have windows XP to work with, and I'm not sure exactly what that means.
It's not exactly like I can open notepad, like with writing html.
When you get a C compiler, will it show you how to start? Can you have more than one on the same computer?
Code::Blocks is about to blow Dev-Cpp out of the water....
You need to grab a nightly build at the moment, but the next official release will push them clear.
Open source isn't a matter of life or death......
.......its much more important than that!!
SuSE Linux - GCC 3.4.2
XP Pro - Visual Studio 2005 TS, MinGW 3.4.2
You most likely have Win32 unless you have the 64 bit eddition so Dev-cpp will work or you could try Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express which is also free.Originally Posted by identifier-less
You can write c source code in notepad or any other text editor you want but you'll still need a compiler to produce an executable.It's not exactly like I can open notepad, like with writing html.
Check your compiler's documentation.When you get a C compiler, will it show you how to start?
Yes.Can you have more than one on the same computer?
... as soon as the developers realise that a "release candidate" is not a "stable release" and actually get their real stable release out :PCode::Blocks is about to blow Dev-Cpp out of the water....
That said, neither Code::Blocks nor Dev-C++ is a C compiler. They are both integrated development environments. Dev-C++ uses the MinGW port of GCC as its default compiler.
I had the impression that MSVC++2005 doesnt support C, other than the common subset of C shared with C++. Is this true?You most likely have Win32 unless you have the 64 bit eddition so Dev-cpp will work or you could try Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express which is also free.
Look up a C++ Reference and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
You can still code in c but will recieve a lot of warnings.
Thanks everybody- what did you say?
If I manage to write code for a really cool screensaver (like the ones that come with Windows) is there a certain compiler I'm going to need?
Did ya'll say there's a difference between C compilers and C ++ compilers?
Obviously C compilers compile C code, and C++ compilers compile C++ code. It so happens that C++ is almost a superset of C, so often C code can be compiled with a C++ compiler.Did ya'll say there's a difference between C compilers and C ++ compilers?
Look up a C++ Reference and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
Okay, thanks. I'm currently trying to download dev-cpp-4.9.9.2
That should get me started at least, right?
No this is not true. The MSVC compiler supports both C and C++.
It is the best C compiler available for Windows systems able to produce efficient binaries is blistering time.
That's not true. The warnings come from bad code, not the compiler.You can still code in c but will recieve a lot of warnings.
I code in C only with warnings set to /W4 and my code is always warning free.
MSVC is just as capable of building C projects as it is C++ projects. (e.g. Wine & ReactOS)
Open source isn't a matter of life or death......
.......its much more important than that!!
SuSE Linux - GCC 3.4.2
XP Pro - Visual Studio 2005 TS, MinGW 3.4.2
I get warnings for things like strcmp and strcpy as well as many of the other standard c functions which microsoft saw fit to replace with their *_s functions.
They aren't really error warning, they are more notification warnings.
Microsofts string-safe library is actually really good and certainly worth using if you plan on using VS exclusively to build.
I stop these warnings by defining
_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE
_CRT_NON_CONFORMING_SWPRINTFS
in my default options (although I do like to use the string-safe libs when I can)
You can also turn them off with a simple pragma in the header :
#if (_MSC_VER >= 1400) /* VC8+ */
#pragma warning(disable : 4996) /* or list the defines as stated above */
#endif
Open source isn't a matter of life or death......
.......its much more important than that!!
SuSE Linux - GCC 3.4.2
XP Pro - Visual Studio 2005 TS, MinGW 3.4.2
