wtd : free C++ compiler

[Naveed]

Hello,

I am at university studying computing and have a C++ project to do. I live
a very long distance from uni and don't want to waste time travelling to use
their computers. I haven't started my project yet but will be starting
soon. I would like to use a C++ compiler at home on my own computer as this
will definitely save me time and bus money. Can anyone please recommend a
free compiler I can download and use.

I would appreciate any help/advise.

Regards

Naveed

 

[sugary.boy]

In that case work on Linux operating system, which is free to & u will
get free compiler along with it called gcc. U can go for redHat Linux
9.0, u can download from readhat.com

 

[Bugbear.1973]

I got through my uni studies by using the Borland Free C++ compiler.
You are required to fill out a survey first before being allowed to
download the compiler.

NB it is a command line only compiler - no GUI !!!

Go to http://www.borland.com/downloads/download_cbuilder.html

 

[Naveed]

In that case work on Linux operating system, which is free to & u will
get free compiler along with it called gcc. U can go for redHat Linux
9.0, u can download from readhat.com

Thanks for the reply. I dont want to change from XP to linux. I dont have
the time to learn how to use a different os yet but it is on my list of
things to do in the future.

thanks

 

[Manfred]

If you are using Windows you could try

http://www.mingw.org

this is the gcc/g++ compiler which originally comes from Linux ported to
Windows.

or http://www.cygwin.com

this is a complete Linux environment for Windows including gcc/g++ and a
lot more programs which could be helpful too.

And of course you could try Linux directly which comes along with gcc.

Manfred

 

[Naveed]

I got through my uni studies by using the Borland Free C++ compiler.
You are required to fill out a survey first before being allowed to
download the compiler.

NB it is a command line only compiler - no GUI !!!

Go to http://www.borland.com/downloads/download_cbuilder.html

Hello Bugbear.1973

Thanks for the reply. Your link looks good but unfortunately my project
requires GUI capability.

Thanks anyway

Naveed

 

[Torsten Mueller]

Your link looks good but unfortunately my project requires GUI
capability.

But what GUI do you mean? Windows?

Try gcc in the MinGW package. You can do all Windows programming you
want including creation of DLLs and more.

But notice, GUI programming needs sooner or later a GUI-IDE. You will
be able to create dialog resources, bitmaps, toolbars and more. I
don't know a free compiler supporting this really. So try to get a
student version of Visual C++.

T.M.

 

[=?iso-8859-1?q?St=E9phane_Wirtel?=]

You can download QT OpenSource Edition, or WxWidgets, or GtkMM.



there are many toolkit to make a GUI for your project.

 

[Manfred]

Thanks for the reply. Your link looks good but unfortunately my project
requires GUI capability.

I think you should try something like wxwidgets or similar, because
there is a gui-builder available and it is possible to run the program
on other Operating systems than windows.

Manfred

 

[RAYYILDIZ]

You can use g++ compiler on windows xp. You can downlaod the dev-c++
and you can use it freely. Dev-C++ use gcc / g++ compiler on windows
platform. Maybe you need a IDE for writing codes. You can use some
free c/c++ editor. Most of them helps you to colour the code. Also you
can download the eclipse IDE. It is develpoped for java. Hovewer it was
adapted to C/C++ like IDE.
if you want to change your OS, you will find so much help tools on the
linux. It is not matter what you select linux distrubtion.
Good luck.

 

[benben]

Hello,

I am at university studying computing and have a C++ project to do. I live
a very long distance from uni and don't want to waste time travelling to use
their computers. I haven't started my project yet but will be starting
soon. I would like to use a C++ compiler at home on my own computer as this
will definitely save me time and bus money. Can anyone please recommend a
free compiler I can download and use.

I would appreciate any help/advise.

Regards

Naveed

Microsoft is also offering its own optimizing compiler for free without an
IDE. Its called the Visual C++ Toolkit.

If you need a free IDE, then you might be looking for one that uses gcc. I
recommand Eclipse and CDT with MinGW.

Ben

 

[Bart]

Thanks for the reply. Your link looks good but unfortunately my project
requires GUI capability.

Carfull here. You need to distinguish a few things.

1. The C++ language: keywords, language constructs, etc.
2. The C++ standard library (aka STL): mostly computational, some text
and file operations.
3. 3rd-party libraries: for anything else.

Sorry if you already know all of this, but many universities teach an
amalgam of all of the above without clearly indicating what elements
belong to what group. If you need GUI capability then you have to use a
3rd-party library. However, your project may require a specific
3rd-party library not just any GUI library. In that case just any C++
compiler won't do. You might need to use a specific compiler that
suports the specific 3rd-party library that you need to use.

In other words, I think your original question is a bit too vague. What
exactly do you need to do? What are the requirements of your project?

 

[Mike Smith]

Hello Bugbear.1973

Thanks for the reply. Your link looks good but unfortunately my project
requires GUI capability.

You can *build* GUI programs with it; it simply doesn't come with its
own GUI IDE.

 

[Theron NightStar]

Hello,

I am at university studying computing and have a C++ project to do. I live
a very long distance from uni and don't want to waste time travelling to use
their computers. I haven't started my project yet but will be starting
soon. I would like to use a C++ compiler at home on my own computer as this
will definitely save me time and bus money. Can anyone please recommend a
free compiler I can download and use.

I would appreciate any help/advise.

Regards

Naveed

If you are looking for a nice, full featured IDE for development on XP that supports Windows GUI development as well as Console, DLL, and Static libraries (all as default project types) Try Bloodshed Dev-C++ at http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html. Another poster said that as well, but it didn't really stand out. I would really recommend you at least check it out And it does use gcc and mingw.

 

[Einar Forselv]

I can recommend Dev-C++, a free IDE using gcc/mingw.

http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/

For GUI I use FLTK, but im sure there are plenty of other good cross
platform libs for that. If you install the FLTK package through the
build-in package manager you can create a new project using the FLTK
template and you are up and running in seconds.