Re: "Portable" C compilers?

Malcolm McLean wrote:
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Compilers carry about baggage with them - a list of headers, and libraries, normally several utility programs or a separate linker, often an IDE.
So it is very unusual to get one that can function as a single executable with no fiddling about to install correctly.
Exactly - Students at my school are not given 'administrator accounts' on WinXP, and I am a student at this school. Now Borland C++ is installed. I don't like it. When I need to write one huge source file with a huge main function with little function breakdown, a lot of global variables, don't appreciate Borland's crappy syntax highlighting, different compiler with different errors/warnings, I don't want to create 'projects' every single time. So I'm not using the compiler/IDE installed on the school computer. But I like GCC. Programs which I send to a server to be marked on, use GCC on Linux (I think Debian). So I don't want to double click on install.exe, setup.exe nor anything .exe just to [try] dump 'baggage' into C:\Program Files\[whatever] and get a dialog box saying I don't have administrative accounts, please log into such an account.

Now I just have to check the compilers recommended in previous replies...
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