Thread: help with a really basic question

Hi,
I've already learned how to do basic programming in C++ and understand all the basics. I want to go a step further now and based on this website I was going to explore OpenGL. I was reading the tutorial and RoD provided a "hello world" in windows programming.

For programming C++, I used Secure Shell SSH and would just open a c++ file with an editor (emacs helloworld.cc). Can I use this program to do windows programming as well and how would I do that, or do I need something completely different?

Thank you...

Unless I'm mistaken emacs is an editor, you can use any edit to edit source code. But when it comes to compiling the code you will need a compiler for the platform your coding for in this case windows.
Some windows compilers are
Bloodshed DevC++
Microsoft Visual C++
and Borland C++