Help for the basics

[Samblaize]

Very new at this and am just messing about, so please bear with me cause I am probably making a very easy mistake but I...meh just read below.

I have been using the tutorials on this site and got Dev-C++ cause it said it was good for begginers. I read through the little bit and then it came to actually entering something. So I went File - New - Project, put it on Console Application and typed what it told me, which was this:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
  cout<<"HEY, you, I'm alive! Oh, and Hello World!\n";
  cin.get();
}

Then it told me to run it, which I did but it always says "Project is not compiled" So what do I do??

Thanks in advance, hope I gave enough info there.

[Elysia]

Well (I don't know dev-c++ very well, however), you must first compile your project into an executable!
There should be a compile option in the menus somewhere. Select it first, and THEN run the program!

[Terran]

You shouldn't be using DevC++, it comes with a version of MINGw32 that's like 10 years old!!!

look up wxDevC++, same thing, but with the wxWidgets library included and an updated compiler.

There's a little green arrow in DevC++ (F9 key) that builds and executes your program.

You need to build it before you can run it!

Any other questions about Dev just ask, it's what i use!!! (and we all know how smart i am :-p )

[sand_man]

I've been using Visual Studio Express but MingwStudio is quite good for newbies. I would be using it too but I couldn't get SDL to work with mingw under Vista.

[Terran]

I've actually been thinking about VSE because of the SDL / wxWidgets / Vista issues...