Question:
i need C & C++ compiler for window 8.1 64 bit?
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2015-11-07 18:25:31 UTC
i need C & C++ compiler for window 8.1 64 bit?
Three answers:
husoski
2015-11-07 19:19:18 UTC
If you can live with only partial support for C99 and C11 on the C compiler side, the Visual C++ compiler in Visual Studio will work. The "Community Edition" license will work for all students and most indie developers. The "Express" edition license will work for almost anyone, big or small.



For a 20th century C support, I suggest the MinGW port of GCC, or one of it's spinoff projects like mingw-64 or TDM. That's a compiler collection, plus command-line tools and debugger. If you want an IDE, there's Code::Blocks. That's a nice, fully-free, cross-platform IDE, plus there's a binary download bundle for windows that includes a recent build of TDM. You get C, C++, plus some legacy languages like Fortran and Ada.



Dev-C++ is another IDE. For that, make sure you get the "Orwell Dev-C++" version. The original Dev-C++ project has been dead for several years, but Orwell has taken the project on and is putting out new versions. I don't use it, mostly because I wonder: If the original developers were really into C++ development, why did they write the IDE in Pascal?



Finally, if you have a need to port Unix/Linux code to a PC, there's Cygwin. That's a port of most of GNU, plus several other open-source packages, recompiled for a Unix-like binary runtime environment under Windows.
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2015-11-07 22:44:13 UTC
At this point, LLVM/Clang is probably your best bet.

MinGW is probably a close second --- but, while MinGW is an unofficial (yes, very-high-quality, but still unofficial) port of GCC, the LLVM project actively supports MS Windows. Both compilers are free under similar licenses and fully support C++14.



If you're actually looking for an IDE, you're asking the wrong person, because I use Emacs (which, strictly speaking, is just a text editor.)



Note most IDEs are independent of their compilers, as they should be.
Montana Peterson
2015-11-07 18:49:49 UTC
Dev-C++ is the compiler i use its pretty simple but if you don't understand something you can find some good tutorials on youtube. i hope i helped


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