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What is a good compiler for C. I need a decent one as i have just started programming in C

GCC/mingw

ocamlc

Oh shi- I forgot im running windows so no unix/linux

dev-c++ -> http://www.bloodshed.net/

>>4
Get cygwin and install gcc on it.

>>5

>>4
Because you're running Windows, you can even have many different C compilers without it being a nightmare. You have a native port of GCC called MinGW; you can install Dev-C++ which is an IDE including MinGW, and you can install Cygwin and get exact equivalents of all Unix utilities and of course GCC. There's also native ports of GNU textutils, binutils, etc. as well as other free implementations of these tools not from GNU, and of course, at least two different commercial implementaions (though I don't know why would you want them). You can keep using Windows' command interpreter CMD.EXE (remember to enable autocompletion in the registry), but you can also use bash, zsh, csh, psh, ... Finally, you may want to throw Perl, Python, PHP, and Ruby in, and get yourself a great text-mode orthodox file manager (FAR, think Midnight Commander only n times better where n is a very large number).

I admit it takes more time to set up, but once you do, you can have pretty much the same nice console environment of Unix, with the nice graphical environment of Windows. This is why I use Windows NT (2000) as my primary OS.Pretty much anything I can do in Linux, I can do in Windows, then I have many other things I can do in Windows that aren't available for Linux, and I don't have to cope with the filesystem hierarchy standard piece of shit as well as the sub-par workstation performance of Linux.

>>8 Haha keep telling yourself that

http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/

>>9
He can keep telling himself that because I have 5 different C compilers and various other language compilers in addition coexisting peacefully on my XP and 2k3 systems. Then there's the Solaris box where things goes apeshit when I put gcc and Sun's cc on.

You can keep telling yourself that M$ windoze winsux, and developers can keep laughing at you. Majority of developers develop on Windows, EVEN if their target is Linux.


>>1
Since you're on Windows, get >>10
It'll do regular C without .NET

Just out of curiosity, what are you DOING with five different C compilers?

>>11
In your cluelessness you managed to screw something up on a solaris box, therefore UNIX sucks? Whoa there, Socrates!

Your last line is a classic argumentum ad populum.

BTW I'm not a 'developer'. I actually have a brain and skills that enable me to succeed in natural sciences. You know, that shit you never quite got down in HS so you decided to study software engineering instead?

I went into software engineering because it's easier than bio-science.  I admit it.

It's also a heckuva' lot easier to get a good-paying job.

>>13 speaks truth.

Face it, CS is like the arts department of the science world: we're the types who couldn't hack it at a something harder.

If you haven't hit uni yet, do yourself a favour: don't go into CS. It'll make you stupid.

>>15

Depends on your CS department. Mine was very mathematical and concentrated on the theoretic and algorithmic aspects of programming rather than just churning out Java programmers, like a lot of them seem to do.

theoretical cs is more or less applied maths. software engineering is... well, software engineering.

>>13
Yeah, because being a developer somehow directly depends on having done software engineering or CS. Then again, maybe not.

For someone who allegedly has "a brain and skills", you sure lack any comprehension capability, or did you lose it while doing your mighty natural sciences?. Is it because someone pointed out a shortcoming of ONE type of UNIX, and it violated your sensibilities as a UNIX fanboy and try to spin it to encompass all UNIX systems? Or didn't you realize that Solaris isn't the only UNIX?

Oh we bow to you Mr. holier-than-thou. Or maybe you're just a bigot.

>>17
In theory. In practise one has to wonder what actually goes on in tertiary courses nowadays.

>>16
I went to a world-class uni (actually, I went to several, so I can compare), known for its CS department. I usually was one of the top students in each class too. It was also all heavy on math and concentrated on the theoretical side. Yadda, yadda.

I stand by what I said. If you think CS is hard, I invite you to look at what the physicists do. They have us licked. So do the chemists, and maybe even the biologists.

I guess it was telling that most of the coders in the research-oriented startup I used to work for were all from physics backgrounds. There was exactly one CS guy, and the only reason he was there was because he was a total genius.

>>18
You gotta understand, you picked on >>13's religion, and you even mentioned another OS; Unix is a monotheist religion, the name "Unix" suggests that.

Lol trawls. Not worth my time. Enjoy your chaffy life.

>>21
Not worth my time.
You don't have enough time to reply because you're still busy compiling libraries, perhaps even with some witty CFLAGS.

Lol; moron. The only thing I've compiled since 2002 was mplayer and my own code.

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