about Visual Studio 2005 Express (free)

[polychrom]

Which from free Windows Development Editions I need for the task to
compile C source code to exe application? (I have ready C source codes)

Visual C# 2005 Express Edition or Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition?

thanks.

 

[Tom St Denis]

Which from free Windows Development Editions I need for the task to
compile C source code to exe application? (I have ready C source codes)

Visual C# 2005 Express Edition or Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition?

thanks.

I so fear for the future.

Tom

 

[Gernot Frisch]

Which from free Windows Development Editions I need for the task to
compile C source code to exe application? (I have ready C source
codes)

Visual C# 2005 Express Edition or Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition?

I think C++ Edition. C# is MS Java

 

[Tom St Denis]

I think C++ Edition. C# is MS Java

It's hard to tell actually. VS.net includes a C89 compiler so their
naming scheme isn't exactly super clear.

Tom

 

[Jack Klein]

Which from free Windows Development Editions I need for the task to
compile C source code to exe application? (I have ready C source codes)

Visual C# 2005 Express Edition or Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition?

thanks.

This is really off-topic here, but if you actually have C source code,
you need a C compiler, which is included along with the C++ compiler
by Microsoft. C# is a completely different language and not
compatible with C.

 

[polychrom]

Tom St Denis пиÑал(а):

It's hard to tell actually. VS.net includes a C89 compiler so their
naming scheme isn't exactly super clear.

Tom

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If it's hard to tell actually what product I need to compile small C
source code (pure C, not Java, not C++, etc), all these products are
inconvenient, so i need lternative free open source compilers, which
allows work without headashe

mistral

 

[P.J. Plauger]

Tom St Denis ?????(?):

It's hard to tell actually. VS.net includes a C89 compiler so their
naming scheme isn't exactly super clear.

Tom

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If it's hard to tell actually what product I need to compile small C
source code (pure C, not Java, not C++, etc), all these products are
inconvenient, so i need lternative free open source compilers, which
allows work without headashe

By all means. You clearly need gcc, which stands for Gnu Compiler Collection
(where Gnu stands for Gnu's Not Unix), which clearly has a C compiler
somewhere
inside it.

P.J. Plauger
Dinkumware, Ltd.
http://www.dinkumware.com

 

[Lasse Espeholt]

Which from free Windows Development Editions I need for the task to
compile C source code to exe application? (I have ready C source codes)

Visual C# 2005 Express Edition or Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition?

thanks.

Visual C# Express can ONLY make MSIL (not assembly nor actually source)
but Visual C++ can compile both C++ and C++ .Net (again MSIL).

Best regards
Lasse Espeholt

 

[David Wade]

Tom St Denis ?????(?):

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If it's hard to tell actually what product I need to compile small C
source code (pure C, not Java, not C++, etc), all these products are
inconvenient, so i need lternative free open source compilers, which
allows work without headashe

By all means. You clearly need gcc, which stands for Gnu Compiler Collection
(where Gnu stands for Gnu's Not Unix), which clearly has a C compiler
somewhere
inside it.

That still leaves things very open, as there are a number of implementations
for Windows. I suppose as he has asked about standalone .exe he wants MINGW
(www.mingw.org) but would the Salford compiler or Waterloo "C" also be O.K.