Does anyone do C++ programming? A qn about Dev-C++ compiler

londonman81

I'm a newbie to C++ programmign and have just downloaded the free C++ compiler by Bloodshed - Dev C++.

But when I try to run a simple program on it , it doesn;t seem to work.

Can anyoen please try and explain what I need to do to run programs in the Dev-C++ environment?

The Help in the program is useless and I can't seem to figure out what is going on when I compile - it gives weird messages about file not being most recent etc

Thanks,
L

newfoundglory

I've never used this, so I can't tell you much about it unfortunately. But I can tell you what I do use.

For windows, I use cygwin (go to https://www.cygwin.com), so I can use the GNU compiler tools... gcc/g++ etc. You would need to install this when you go through cygwin installation configuration.

Once installed, start > control panel > system... click advanced tab, then select 'environment variables' from the bottom. You need to add the cygwin bin directory to the windows system path. So edit the path variable and add where you put cygwin ( eg. c:\cygwin\bin; ), ending it with a semi-colon.

Next install the graphical front end - I use Eclipse SDK. You get this from http://www.eclipse.org/

Once you have installed this, you need to install the CDT (C Development Tools) which is also found on the eclipse site (its an eclipse tools project). This allows you to compile c/c++ code in eclipse, using the GNU tools you just installed.

For linux and unix, these tools come as standard so you would just install eclipse!

londonman81

newfoundglory wrote:

I've never used this, so I can't tell you much about it unfortunately. But I can tell you what I do use.

For windows, I use cygwin (go to https://www.cygwin.com), so I can use the GNU compiler tools... gcc/g++ etc. You would need to install this when you go through cygwin installation configuration.

Once installed, start > control panel > system... click advanced tab, then select 'environment variables' from the bottom. You need to add the cygwin bin directory to the windows system path. So edit the path variable and add where you put cygwin ( eg. c:\cygwin\bin; ), ending it with a semi-colon.

Next install the graphical front end - I use Eclipse SDK. You get this from http://www.eclipse.org/

Once you have installed this, you need to install the CDT (C Development Tools) which is also found on the eclipse site (its an eclipse tools project). This allows you to compile c/c++ code in eclipse, using the GNU tools you just installed.

For linux and unix, these tools come as standard so you would just install eclipse!

Thanks for that - I dont actually care which C++ enviroment I use as logn as I can use it to write and run C++ programs easily.

As a complete newbie to it I am not used to anything in particular at the moment so I may have a go at the one you use.

It's just very annoying downloading a new compiler only to find that it's totally esoteric and un-intuitive to new users.

Thanks!

L

newfoundglory

Eclipse is very popular. It was originally written for Java, and works very well with it. But CDT makes it fantastic for C and C++ too.

londonman81

newfoundglory wrote:

Eclipse is very popular. It was originally written for Java, and works very well with it. But CDT makes it fantastic for C and C++ too.

Wow - you replied just as I was looking at the Eclipse website.

The Eclipse SDK seems to be a massive file though and I only have dial-up connection 85 MB would take forever to download.

Anyway - logistics of downloading aside - is the Eclipse developer environment easy to figure out and can I write programs and expect them to run without problems?

I'm new to programming generally and it doesn't help when a compiler does weird things.

Thanks

L

newfoundglory

Yeah, it is quite big. You dont actually "install" eclipse though, you just unzip all the files, as Eclipse itself is written in Java.

Yeah, you should have no problems compiling and running programs under windows - i never have!