Recommend a C compiler for me please

[thespeakerbox]

My teacher recommended Turbo C++, but its not free , and she said its on ebay. She's crazy. She also recommended bloodshed, but it always crashes and doesnt display the programs right. Can someone recommend me a basic C compiler..... Please!

 

[thespeakerbox]

Bump!

 

[everman]

GCC or I'm sure you can get a student discount on visual c++.

 

[igowerf]

Originally posted by: everman
GCC or I'm sure you can get a student discount on visual c++.

Dev-Cpp uses the MinGW port of gcc. Otherwise, gcc requires Cygwin to run.

Thespeakerbox, Dev-CPP works great for me. Are you using an official release or a beta release?

 

[CTho9305]

The Visual C++ 7 (2003) compiler is available for free from Microsoft.

 

[Nothinman]

She also recommended bloodshed, but it always crashes and doesnt display the programs right.

Then figure out what's wrong with your machine or file bug reports. Bloodshed Dev-C++ is open source and uses a toolchain used by virtually every Linux user in the world, if it was crash-happy people would know.

And what does "doesn't display the programs right" mean?

 

[Thyme]

Originally posted by: igowerf

Originally posted by: everman
GCC or I'm sure you can get a student discount on visual c++.

Dev-Cpp uses the MinGW port of gcc. Otherwise, gcc requires Cygwin to run.

Cygwin is a nice program to have anyway.

 

[mattsaccount]

Visual C++ Express Edition linkage:
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/visualc/default.aspx

 

[Nothinman]

Cygwin is a nice program to have anyway.

Ideally yes, but cygwin is god-awful slow compared to running those tools native on unix. There's a port of a lot of those tools to native win32 somewhere on sourceforge which are a lot faster, but I don't remember the name of the project right now.

 

[Thyme]

That's true, but for learning unix development without a unix box, the speed difference won't really matter and it also makes it convenient to learn the bash shell.