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Okay, somebody help me with this quick, I'm gonna use Cygwin, but... What 'packages' do I absolutely need to compile these files? I don't want to bother downloading, installing, and taking the risk of messing up my computer with any packages I don't need. If you could, go to http://www.cygwin.com and download the setup.exe file (click on "Install Now!"), its a very small file that doesnt actually install anything, but it lists all the packages and what each thing does.
Thanks!
Yes downloading from Cygwin's site is insane. There are a lot of libraries you don't need. There are some debug tools you don't need (you will want them someday). Just get the compiler. Are you porting from a UNIX platform? If not you should get Mingw. It is also free and it is a win32 compiler, not a UNIX compiler with a win32 wrapper.
I could not find a .zip of the mingw compile, only .tgz, so I just installed Dev-C++ copied all the mingw stuff and deleted dev-c++ works perfect.
I am on Win95. I have Dev C++, but it doesn't work when I try to compile, I get all the same errors I get with other compilers. Where to I get Mingw? I'll do a search on it a while. When I get it, I'll try it and see if it works, and let ya know whether it does or not.
Thanks!
What errors are those? Maybe it is your code.
I'm compiling a MUD. There's nothing wrong with the code, it's just the compilers can't handle it and find all sorts of errors, which is why I have seen that Windows users should get Cygwin to use to compile MUD's. I found Mingw's site, and went from there to the GNU site, and went to download, ended up at a mirror with the address ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-3.1.1/ but there are a lot of files, wondering if anyone knows which one I need? otherwise I'll just download the main one, it being 25 MB, which will take forever on my computer, but it'll be worth it.
As I mentioned, I DO have Dev C++, what files do I need to save for Mingw, and if I were to use it that way, how would I compile?
I just copied the bin, Lib, and Inlude directories. To compile you go to command line and type gcc -c filename.c then gcc -o filename filename.o
I have multiple files, somewhere around 30 that I need to compile into one program.
Since Dev-C++ uses mingw you can overwrite everything. All you need to keep is devcpp.exe.