WANTED: gcc-like facility for Windoze

[gone_bush]

Hi all,

Does anyone know of a free (as in beer) C (not C++) compiler for Windoze that does all that gcc does - ie a full Posix-compliant API?

I would prefer a solution that did not need cygwin - the software is not for me but for my students who do not have / know / hate *nix but who cannot afford little Billy's inflated price for VC++.

BTW: Posted in this forum 'coz the Redmond folk probably don't know what 'gcc' is. (Not even sure that they know what beer is )

[bluedreamer]

No offense but did you bother to google?
First result returned was
http://sis.bris.ac.uk/~dw0857/

mingw-32 also works afaik.

[gone_bush]

No offence taken - I only went to gcc.gnu.org. And yes, I was / am / always will be lazy.

I haven't, as yet, fully explored the site you mentioned but, at first sight, seems to be what I want.

Thx for your reply.

[hogwash]

Why not download Cygwin and use the windows port of GCC they provide.

[NankstaH]

You might want to give LCC for windows a try. If you're just learning C it's quite capable.

[DrDevil]

I'm using djcpp for all my uni C coding - working well so far

[Bion1c]

another vote for lcc.. i've had no issues recompiling source from that on unix machines w/ gcc

[xhadow]

you may want to see devcpp also, it uses gcc compiler

http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

[darthpikachu]

There is also the windows Unix addon thing, it bascially like cygwin except it's from microsoft

[Buzzard]

There are quite a few free C(++) compilers for windows:

• Borland Free command line tools (http://www.borland.com)
• MinGW - Minimalist GNU for Windows (http://www.mingw.org)
• LCC-Win32 - Comes with IDE +other tools (http://www.q-software-solutions.com/lccwin32/ ?)
• DJGPP - (http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/)
• DevCPP - Free IDE that uses uses MinGW (IIRC) (http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html)

I personally use (well, when not using BCB6) Borland BuilderX which is a very powerful IDE which can use either the Borland Compiler or MinGW (comes with both). A personal edition (free for personal use) is available here: http://www.borland.com/cbuilderx/personal/index.html

[gone_bush]

Hi Buzzard,

Thx for your suggestions. But (don't you hate that word?) how many of those compilers come with libraries that include 'pipe', 'dup', 'dup2' at such things? Or is that stupid question 'coz all C compilers come with such libraries?

Yeah, I could download the doco / software / other shit and find out for myself, but, as I said above, I'm basically lazy. )

[Buzzard]

I don't know what 'pipe', 'dup' and 'dup2' are but, all the compilers above come with all the standard c libraries and headers (stdio, stdlib, etc..), and a couple also come with the C++ template library (like BCBX).

[Rolan]

you're after g++ , the windows port of gcc
the Devcpp IDE uses it

[Shalmanese]

pipe, dup and dup2 are all OS specific system calls. Hence, if you want the same functionality in windows then your going to need to run an emulator such as cygwin. Alternatively, you could learn how the windows programming model works and the windows API and do it the windows way. AFAIK, DOS supports pipes natively and I suppose it should support dup and dup2 as well. You would have to check though.

[martinus]

Originally posted by Shalmanese
AFAIK, DOS supports pipes natively and I suppose it should support dup and dup2 as well. You would have to check though.

DOS supports pipe dreams only. Apart form that, DOS doesn't multitask and is not even re-entrant. Yes, the shell (command.com) allows vertical line operators, but emulates them by calling commands sequentially with I/O redirection...