Thread: Help with Borland c++ compiler!!!

HI i just saw this site, i think its pretty cool. Okay well im Alevel student in UK, we learn Pascal at college. Thing is i want to learn C or C++ in my spare time and so i downloaded the Borland compiler. I have two questions:-

1) Can i program in C on this compiler even though it says C++

and more importantly...

2)I downloaded te compiler and now i dont know how to make it work!!!!!!! It is saved on my harddrive but i dont know what to do to make it work.



[P.S.]
I dont even know if this is going to show on the message board esp. since this is my first post on ANY message board.(ill keep my fingers crossed)
Thanx, Zohaib Khan

I also had problems getting the compiler to work in the beggining. You have to make a few .cfg-files and stuff if I remember correctly, it's in one of the files that comes with it anyway.

In any case, I also recommend you download Dev-C++ instead. It's much easier and nicer.
Download it here

Thanx for the help guys. Hey i never knew that i would get reply so quickly.

uhhh sorry about this but i still cant get it working. It says this in the readme file:-
Installing and running the Command Line Tools
-----------------------------------------------

1. Run freecommandlinetools.exe; choose the
drive and folder into which you want to
install the free C++Builder 5 command line
tool development system.

2. From the bin directory of your installation:
a. Add "c:\Borland\Bcc55"
to the existing path
b. Create a bcc32.cfg file which will set
the compiler options for the Include
and Lib paths (-I and -L switches to
compiler) by adding these lines:
-I"c:\Borland\Bcc55\include"
-L"c:\Borland\Bcc55\lib"
c. Create an ilink32.cfg file which will set
the linker option for the Lib path by
adding this line:
-L"c:\Borland\Bcc55\lib"





Well it does go on about creating cfg files but the problem is i dont know how. i would reeeeaaalllyyyy appreaciat it if someone could give me or direct me to a step by step guide.

thanks.

I made a batch file to do the compiling

<-------compile.bat--------->

@echo off
if "%1"=="" goto usage

bcc32 -Lc:\borland\bcc55\Lib -Ic:\borland\bcc55\include %1

goto end

:usage
Echo.
Echo Enter a filename to be compiled...
Echo Example: compile hello.cpp
echo.

goto end

:end

<----- End of batch file -------->

save the bacth file to your c:\borland\bcc55\bin dir.
add this directory to the path
make a folder to save your programs in
write a program.....

<-------hello.cpp------->

#include <iostream.h>

int main()
{
cout << "Hello, World!" << endl;
return 0;
}

<-----end of hello.cpp------->

type compile hello.cpp and hit enter....

run hello.exe

Originally posted by Unregistered
Well it does go on about creating cfg files but the problem is i dont know how. i would reeeeaaalllyyyy appreaciat it if someone could give me or direct me to a step by step guide.

Well, I tried this and it works as well....

1. copy the the lines below into new file in notepad.

-I"c:\Borland\Bcc55\include"
-L"c:\Borland\Bcc55\lib"

2. save it as c:\borland\bcc55\bin\bcc32.cfg

3. copy the the line below into new file in notepad.

-L"c:\Borland\Bcc55\lib"

4. save it as c:\borland\bcc55\bin\ilink32.cfg

then you can run "bcc32 hello.cpp"

okay guys i know im probably driving you all mad but heres what happens.


I took Animals advice (thanks) and created the required cfg files. Now problem is that when i try open them windows gives me a message saying it needs a file called heroes2.exe, to open cfg files, which it cant find??? incidently i had a game called heroes 2.


sorry about this and thanks to everyone who tried to help!!!

why do you need to open the config files? that has nothing to do with your compiler working. your windows associations are screwed up. search for associations in windows help. what you want to do is associate .cfg with notepad.exe....