Re: learning C without an IDE

Jujitsu Lizard wrote, On 02/12/08 05:56:
"darren" <minofifa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you want to use Windows, if i remember correctly MinGW and Visual C+
+ from Microsoft are the two major free compilers. Once you have them
installed you can compile sourcecode from the command line. As already
mentioned, choose the compiler you wish to use, then read its
documentation to learn how to compile with it.

Microsoft Visual C++ has been everything from $299 to $99 to free over
the years.

I'm too lazy to look up if the basic version is free these days.

I'll save you the trouble. There is a version available free (IIRC you
cannot use it for commercial purposes) and has been for at least a few
versions and a number of years. The only reason I don't have the free
version is because I have an MSDN subscription on the company...

But I forgot all about that.

And MinGW? Never heard of that in Lizardland.

gcc (and other nix type tools) for Windows. It is (I think) short for
Minimalistic GNU for Windows. However, because it uses the Microsoft C
library and gcc has not been properly adapted for it there *are* areas
where it does not even conform to the old C90 standard. I believe (from
memory) that the printf/scanf families have problems with long double.
This is not an error by either Microsoft or the gcc team, rather it is a
problem in the way the MinGW team have glued the two things together.
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