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Toucan
04-02-2007, 10:43 PM
I finally have the chance to try and learn a bit more about programming.
I need a C compiler to start learning how to put this stuff together.
There is quite a bit of choice. Are they all pretty much the same or is there a big difference between them?
Do you guys have any recomendations?

TimP
04-03-2007, 11:44 AM
LCC-Win32 (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/) is a nice combination of ease of use and power. It comes with a basic IDE, is fairly light weight, and you can be up and running in a few minutes. The most popular C compiler is probably gcc. On Windows you can run it through Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com) or with MinGW (http://www.mingw.org) but it's slightly more complicated to setup and use. For now I'd recommend LCC-Win32.

Toucan
04-04-2007, 5:58 AM
Ok, I got LCC-Win32, I have compiled my first ridiculously simple program and I am starting to work it out.
I had just got DJGPP (http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/) working as well (I think it was working right anyway :D ), though being a command line compiler it was difficult to use. I like the LCC-Win32 a lot better.
Thanks a lot for that TimP.