Thread: conflicting compilers

ok, here is the deal, I have to do a couple of programs for my C++ class and I will be using devc++, now I have this educational version of borland which works similar to what they have at school, but I still have the problem of the program ending early. At school I don't have the problem, I made a program, and it ran fine, didnt' close early or anything, but when i had the exact same program ran on my comp, it ends early. I have no Idea why it did this, is there some setting I have to put. Also, at school, it executes a program with a white screen instead of a black one. I just don't want to hand in a program that won't compile and get an F on my first assignment.

You have to pause the system. They are many ways to do it. For example, you can use cin.get() or system("PAUSE"). The system pause only works on windows/dos systems. BTW, other people might tell you to use kbhit or other functions in conio.h. Try to stay away from these though b/c they are non-standard functions and everyone might not have them.

P.S. The system function is located in <cstdlib> or <stdlib.h>

P.S.S Try searching the board before you ask questions next time because this question has been asked many times before. It is also in the FAQ at this site.

hmm, I put in the system pause function and tried to compile it with the version I have and it didn't fully compile it. I think the version I have is a bit old, it's version 5.02. I am afraid that if I hand it into the teachere and it doesn't compile I will get my first low grade. I used the "system("pause"); function along with the header file iostream.h. Now I know that in the verison we have at school, it will get an error with .h after the header, but I don't know if the pause function will work. To be safe, should I just put something such as

Code:

int x;
cin >> x;

to keep the prog from closing. Sorry if this has been asked but I didn't have much luck when I searched.

Include <cstdlib> ( or <stdlib.h> if using the old header files)when using system().