I've started to teach myself C++, went out bough the book and all that fun stuff. But I haven't found a good compiler for it. I need a free, not necessarily open source C++ compiler. Does Visual C++ compiler make it's app need the .net framework? If not I can use that if there's nothing else.
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Try Visual C++ Express.
Just make sure you start the project as a Win32 program.
You will also want to statically link the VC++ runtimes. I've forgotten how to do that atm, sorry.
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I also suggest VC++.
Would be best if you could find VC6. It generates the smallest code among all popular C++ compilers ever and you surely won't go into any trouble with .NET - it's one generation too old.
Also, it's runtime libraries come as standard at least since w2k.
About statical linking - I disagree.
Program+runtime dlls is much bigger than program with statically linked whatever's needed. But dlls are shared and therefore user can have 1 copy for all programs=less space+faster startup+lower total memory usage. I do this since forever and never had any issues with Dll Hell, VC runtimes seem to have good backwards compatibility.
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have a local library with a good hardy C++ for Dummies???
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That's the book I bought.
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why didn't you just borrow it? I think 3 months is plenty of lending time
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In order to try to get more money out of taxes the federal officials have pretty much shutdown the library. It's only open for like 2 hours 3 times a week. Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 11am to 1pm. Except on wednesday it's open to 2pm. My problem: can't get there at that time.
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I should really appreciate the areas's 30 grand yearly taxes then, should I?
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http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/cpp.shtml
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Check out Codeblocks with the Mingw compiler. They are both open source.
You can find it here. Just download "codeblocks-8.02mingw-setup.exe" from there and install it. It will install the mingw compiler and get you going. Good luck! *me is off on a holiday now*
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