Help me start C++

[Vault Of Thrones]

I'd have to recommend going with the hippy compiler GCC. And from what I hear, Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler is pretty good as well. If the llvm and clang worked better on C++ I'd recommend that as well; unfortunately though, it's really only C that's supported now.

[synkr0nized]

I code in Linux/UNIX-based environments, so I've always had GCC at my fingertips.

I suppose back before college there was Microsoft's Visual C++ or whatever was on Windows 2k machines, but *shrug*.

[Zilla]

DigiPen, we use Gnu and Visual Studio mostly, and also Borland for extra compatibility. From my experience, Borland seems to catch more errors and run faster than the other two for a lot of operations. There are some things Borland allows that GNU or MicroSoft won't though.

[bluestarultor]

I've actually had trouble with Microsoft's Visual C++ when dealing with non-Visual Studio code. Tried modifying FF Hackter to better suit my tastes and it gave me crap about not having a few necessary files for some reason. I fully expect Visual Studio to be able to compile stuff you write right in there, but I'm not sure if it does it normally or into the Combined Language Runtime (CLR).

[01d55]

Originally Posted by Megaman FTW

I already have a variety of online tutorials at my fingertips as well as some very thick beginners manuals. Problem is that all the manuals are very old and don't mention how to find a compiler because they originally included one that is now long since lost.

Can anyone be a pal and find me one o' them direct link things to an install file?

EDIT: I tried Dev-C++ 4 and it didn't work. The install file keeps insisting that it is damaged or in an unknown format. Also, I can't delete it. It seems another program is somehow using it already.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ease_id=595197

minGW, which will get you GCC on windows.

PS: While you're at it, try a better OS.

[Devron]

http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

[Nagato Yuki]

I use Visual Studio for my school projects and for work.

This might be because of the narrower target audience of my industry - mostly windows machines that play games.

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by Nagato Yuki

I use Visual Studio for my school projects and for work.

This might be because of the narrower target audience of my industry - mostly windows machines that play games.

It's not just you. My program is very .NET heavy as well, although they do require Java. Past that and MySQL, PHP, HTML, and JavaScript, though, it's all very much Microsoft.

I suppose it would be most accurate to say with Dreamweaver that it's very heavy on Microsoft and Sun, with a few open source things thrown in when they can get away with it.


Edit: To elaborate on that (and actually say what I meant to before forgetting because of my aside), a lot of things are going .NET these days. C++ programmers are in high demand partly because the ones who were working the jobs are retiring while many companies are in the process of switching to C#, from what I hear around school. The same goes for Perl as many things are switched to other languages like PHP (I know PHP isn't .NET, but it's open source, which is where a lot of the rest of the biz is headed). Older languages like COBOL and Delphi are falling out of use as .NET programming gains more market share.