At 00:00 2006-08-18, Sean Brewer wrote: >uvcceet wrote: > > I'm a hardware engineer. Did a lot of assembler coding a long time > > ago, and now just want to play with C and C++. > > > > I have grabbed the usual "dummies" books, and am not under any stress > > to become great tomorrow, which is good, because I am seeing that the > > tools I will use may be more difficult than the programming :-) > > > > I will start with C, mostly for PICs, and embedded stuff, but I want > > to get to know a bit about the Windows Programming as well, so I am > > looking at M$ C++ 2005 Enterprise Edition, which I downloaded and > > installed. > > > > The DUH question is, will this compile me C code? I am not very adept > > at the tools, but I want to use something mainstream so I can ask > > questions and be able to figure out how to get there from here. I have > > several command line tools for C, but want to just make it as hard as > > I can on myself, <g> so I seek one that is referenced in many of the > > books I am reading. > > > > I was of the impression that all C++ compilers can handle C but before > > I dig a deeper hole, I thought I should ask those who know best. > > > > Thanks a lot > > > > Mark > >I'm not extremely experienced with MS dev products, but I'm pretty sure >what you got does compile C code, but the fact that you obtained it >illegally, well, is bad. Since you kind of indicate you use windows, you >should get Dev-C++
or the Express edition (which I had misread his original message to be) which is free >http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dev-cpp/devcpp-4.9.9.2_setup.exe > >and information about that particular program set can be found here >http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/devcpp.html > > >It uses the GCC compiler, which is pretty standard in the UNIX world, >and is open source, and compiles C and C++ code. > >I'm guessing since the Dev-C++ you need comes with the mingw team's >Win32 API library, so you should be able to do Windows programming. I >know very little Windows programming to tell you anything helpful (I >remember a hello world program!), but many people here are knowledgeable >in that area. > > > >To unsubscribe, send a blank message to ><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > Victor A. Wagner Jr. http://rudbek.com The five most dangerous words in the English language: "There oughta be a law" To unsubscribe, send a blank message to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/c-prog/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
