starting C++

[Diroga]

i bought me a C++ book and now i need a compiler. i dont know anything about c++ so is there an eviroment complier like QB i can download for free?

[Sterling Christensen]

For dos: DJGPP http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
For dos and Windows: Open Watcom http://www.openwatcom.com/
For Windows:
Bloodshed Dev C++ http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html (yeah weird name, I know)
LCC-Win32 http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/

[Plasma]

If you want something simple you can also try Turbo C++ 1.01 (now freeware, thanks Borland ). It's almost as old as QB, but the IDE is similar. Make sure to save your programs with a .CPP extension before you run them, or the compiler will assume that it's C and you'll get errors up the wazoo.

[whitetiger0990]

I cant get tc to start. i did the tour.

[toonski84]

interesting list, sterling, i'd forgotten about openwatcom and i've never heard of lcc.

Tell me, are there any good comparison speed tests on these compilers?

(ps. I still like dev-c++. It's just purty).

[seph]

TC SUCKS. It can't use UGL :'(

[toonski84]

is it not real mode? It says nothing in the documentation.

[Plasma]

I cant get tc to start. i did the tour.

Run TC\BIN\TC.EXE

TC SUCKS. It can't use UGL :'(

Code:

build 0.19b
    Added:
        - support for Borland/Turbo C/C++ real-mode compiler (medium memory
          model), including libs (both for release and debug modes), headers
          and some examples (headers are probably compatible with M$-C/QuickC
          and Watcom-C compilers, but calls to non ansi-c functions like
          farmalloc, farfree and farcoreleft are done, that may be a problem
          with other C real-mode DOS compilers than BC).

[Sterling Christensen]

Tell me, are there any good comparison speed tests on these compilers?

I don't know of any, sorry. Come to think of it, I'd like to see benchmarks too.

[Diroga]

DUDE! turbo c++ rocks! thanks