A good compiler please....

[Nikhil Bokare]

Can anyone suggest me a good, small, easy to use compiler which
follows ANSI C standards?

I use TurboC for the sole reason that I am quite used to it. It does
not follow some of the ANSI C standards.

 

[jacob navia]

Can anyone suggest me a good, small, easy to use compiler which
follows ANSI C standards?

I use TurboC for the sole reason that I am quite used to it. It does
not follow some of the ANSI C standards.

32 bit code generation:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32

compiler+ide+debugger+project management+
resource editor

Approx 5MB download

jacob

 

[Guru Jois]

Can anyone suggest me a good, small, easy to use compiler which
follows ANSI C standards?

I use TurboC for the sole reason that I am quite used to it. It does
not follow some of the ANSI C standards.

see this could be useful to download. I don't know more about this
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/lcc/

 

[nszabolcs]

see this could be useful to download. I don't know more about this
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/lcc/

why lcc? why not gcc?
http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml
or here is a list
http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/resources.php#FreeCompilers

is lcc better in some way?

 

[jacob navia]

why lcc? why not gcc?
http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml
or here is a list
http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/portable/c/resources.php#FreeCompilers

is lcc better in some way?

Yes. lcc is smaller, no installation problems, and it is a C compiler,
not a C++ compiler that can also compile C.

 

[Richard]

Yes. lcc is smaller, no installation problems, and it is a C compiler,
not a C++ compiler that can also compile C.

That is totally unfair.

Gcc is the Gnu Compiler Collection. Formally known as the Gnu C
Compiler.

The C front end to Gcc is just that - a C front end.

 

[Tor Rustad]

Can anyone suggest me a good, small, easy to use compiler which
follows ANSI C standards?

I use TurboC for the sole reason that I am quite used to it. It does
not follow some of the ANSI C standards.

Turbo C was one of my first compilers too, and I did pick up some bad
habbits from it. I haven't used it for a very long time, but you could
check if you invoke it in ANSI mode or not.

A good C compiler is gcc, and if you start using lint too, you a lot
of warnings.

 

[Richard]

Turbo C was one of my first compilers too, and I did pick up some bad
habbits from it. I haven't used it for a very long time, but you could
check if you invoke it in ANSI mode or not.

A good C compiler is gcc, and if you start using lint too, you a lot
of warnings.

I dont know why but in Linux land "lint" seems to have all but
vanished. There is lclint but this is not in the standard Debian/Ubuntu
repositories.

The Gcc options -Wall and -pedantic can help a lot.

Although off topic, I would be interested to hear what other C
programmers here use for "lint"'like examination of theirs and others
code.

 

[Tor Rustad]

I dont know why but in Linux land "lint" seems to have all but
vanished. There is lclint but this is not in the standard Debian/Ubuntu
repositories.

The Gcc options -Wall and -pedantic can help a lot.

and -ansi

Although off topic, I would be interested to hear what other C
programmers here use for "lint"'like examination of theirs and others
code.

I use splint myself, which available both on Win32 and Linux.

http://www.splint.org/

on Ubuntu just type

sudo apt-get install splint

 

[Jack Klein]

I dont know why but in Linux land "lint" seems to have all but
vanished. There is lclint but this is not in the standard Debian/Ubuntu
repositories.

The Gcc options -Wall and -pedantic can help a lot.

Although off topic, I would be interested to hear what other C
programmers here use for "lint"'like examination of theirs and others
code.

PC Lint http://www.gimpel.com

A commercial product, but very reasonably priced for what it does.

I haven't tried splint, so I don't know if it is as good.

Anyone who makes a living programming in C who does not use a lint, or
one of the more advanced and really expensive static analysis tools on
the market, only thinks he/she is a professional programmer.

--
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[Francine.Neary]

Anyone who makes a living programming in C who does not use alint, or
one of the more advanced and really expensive static analysis tools on
the market, only thinks he/she is a professional programmer.

I have to say I disagree with this. I think lint really blows

My compiler is already extremely picky with -W -ansi -pedantic, but
with lint you get screen after screen of spurious warnings even for a
100-line toy program. Sorting out all the cruft from the lint output
for a production-sized program would be an inconceivable burden.

 

[Sharath]

Can anyone suggest me a good, small, easy to use compiler which
follows ANSI C standards?

I use TurboC for the sole reason that I am quite used to it. It does
not follow some of the ANSI C standards.

I think Dev C++ IDE with Cygwin(gcc) compiler would fit your
requirement.
You can find link to this and other compilers at:
http://prokutfaq.byethost15.com/FreeCompilers

-Sharath

 

[Sharath]

I think Dev C++ IDE with Cygwin(gcc) compiler would fit your
requirement.

I mean Dev C++ IDE with MinGW(gcc) compiler. I got confused with
Cygwin and MinGW, anyway both of them are configurable with Dev C++.

 

[jacob navia]

I think Dev C++ IDE with Cygwin(gcc) compiler would fit your
requirement.
You can find link to this and other compilers at:
http://prokutfaq.byethost15.com/FreeCompilers

-Sharath

The original poster was asking for a C ide, not a C++ IDE

 

[osmium]

The original poster was asking for a C ide, not a C++ IDE

Then for DevC the OP must type a file name of the form xxx.c when he creates
a new ffile. Appending ".c" makes it a C compiler.

 

[Sharath]

The original poster was asking for a C ide, not a C++ IDE

No. He asked for a C compiler, not IDE. I suggested
Dev C++ IDE with MinGW compiler(which is a gcc port to
Windows and has both C and C++ compilers). And Dev C++
is an IDE for both C and C++.

-Sharath

 

[Richard]

No. He asked for a C compiler, not IDE. I suggested
Dev C++ IDE with MinGW compiler(which is a gcc port to
Windows and has both C and C++ compilers). And Dev C++
is an IDE for both C and C++.

-Sharath

He asked for "easy to use" and compared with turbo C which kind of hints
at an IDE too. You could do a lot worse than Eclipse with the CDT plugin
for a C IDE which in turn uses gcc as a compiler backend. It has very
good Intellisense like functionality and code cross referencing.

Ideal for a beginner.

Eclipse "know how" is never a bad thing to have. Yes, its a bit on the
"heavy" side, but all (spit) Java apps are ...

 

[Tor Rustad]

I have to say I disagree with this. I think lint really blows

My compiler is already extremely picky with -W -ansi -pedantic, but
with lint you get screen after screen of spurious warnings even for a
100-line toy program. Sorting out all the cruft from the lint output
for a production-sized program would be an inconceivable burden.

I don't get screen after screen with lint warnings....

If Sun can keep a kernel lint clean, then you can do the same:

19. You have the following additional responsibilities when integrating
changes to
the kernel:

o Your changes must not introduce any lint errors. See tips on keeping
the kernel lint clean at /shared/ON/general_docs/lint_tips.txt.

o For the kernel, changes must conform to the C coding style.

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/muskoka/on_dev/golden_rules.txt

 

[Nikhil Bokare]

No. He asked for a C compiler, not IDE. I suggested
Dev C++ IDE with MinGW compiler(which is a gcc port to
Windows and has both C and C++ compilers). And Dev C++
is an IDE for both C and C++.

-Sharath

Thanks for all the help.
I would also like to have an IDE.
But the basic requirement is it should work perfectly according to
ANSI standards in WindowsXP environtment.

 

[Flash Gordon]

Nikhil Bokare wrote, On 03/06/07 09:30:

Thanks for all the help.
I would also like to have an IDE.
But the basic requirement is it should work perfectly according to
ANSI standards in WindowsXP environtment.

If you use the correct options (-ansi -pedantic) all of the gcc based
systems above will conform to the C89 standard and I believe they will
all run on Windows XP.

You could also look at these pages
http://clc-wiki.net/wiki/C_resources:Compilers
http://clc-wiki.net/wiki/C_resources:IDEs