Editing/Compiling Programs on Windows

[Geminias]

i dont have anything against anyone. by that i mean if wtd needed my help i wouldn't hesitate to offer it to him. and in the future i would never hold this argument over him. that is what i mean by i have nothing against anyone.

on the other side, i have had plenty of experiences and never have i held a grudge. people have disappointed me before, yes... but people are people and i happen to understand why people do as they do. you could mass murder my whole family or destroy my two thousand dollar computer, i wouldn't hold it against you.

jesus christ, i believe, had this same message, even though i don't think he was the son of god, he sure was a fine addition to humanity.

if anyone else has some inferences about me they'd like to share i'd suggest that they don't know what they are talking about and perhaps maybe they could keep it to themselves.

[Naveg]

You seriously need to learn when its time to give something up. This is a completely useless argument and you are getting no where. It's enough already.

If you want to post in this thread, it better be related to Compiling C/C++ with MinGW, or we don't want to hear it.

[TokenHerbz]

Gandalf Wrote:

code:

Alright, now is the part that you need to pay attention to. To use the compiler through command prompt, you will need to edit the Windows PATH environmental variable. If you are using Windows 2000 or Windows XP then you have to: 1. Right click on My Computer from the desktop. 2. Select properties. 3. Go to advanced. 4. Click environmental variables. 5. Under system variables select Path 6. Click edit. 7. Add ; and then where you installed MinGW to. If it was C:/Program Files/MinGW then you would add ;C/Program Files/MinGW/bin to the end of what is already there, do not overwrite what is already there!

Well Gandalf, how does one set this up with Windows 98?

[Justin_]

If he knew he would have said so. But try googling "changing PATH in win98" or "editing environment variables in win98"

[md]

TokenHerbz wrote:

Gandalf Wrote:

code:

Alright, now is the part that you need to pay attention to. To use the compiler through command prompt, you will need to edit the Windows PATH environmental variable. If you are using Windows 2000 or Windows XP then you have to: 1. Right click on My Computer from the desktop. 2. Select properties. 3. Go to advanced. 4. Click environmental variables. 5. Under system variables select Path 6. Click edit. 7. Add ; and then where you installed MinGW to. If it was C:/Program Files/MinGW then you would add ;C/Program Files/MinGW/bin to the end of what is already there, do not overwrite what is already there!

Well Gandalf, how does one set this up with Windows 98?

Umm... upgrade to 2000 at least. Windows 98 is rather old and unsupported now...

[TokenHerbz]

i cannot upgrade, i must work with this, is it possible?

[md]

IIRC windows 98 still parses the autoexec.bat file; perhaps specifying your path in it might help

[wtd]

I tried to walk him through that. Apparently he isn't capable of modifying autoexec.bat.

[rizzix]

Install linux.

[TokenHerbz]

um, i dont want to use linux, and my autobat file dosn't open up, and when i di open up, its a bunch of giberish, any other ideas?

[Onega]

IMO, Code::Blocks is better than textpad and crimson editor.
It is an open source free IDE available at [url]www.codeblocks.org/ [/url]

[[Gandalf]]

Thanks for the information (hadn't heard of it before), but the main purpose of the post was editors and setting up MinGW. I probably should have completely left out DevC++ to avoid all that confusion/misunderstanding.

[CodeMonkey2000]

Help! What does "g++: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory" mean?

[haskell]

@ spearmonkey: Usually means you don't have the gcc-core package.

Dev-C++ is not a good choice. I'd elaborate, but its a waste of energy.

Relo[http://www.fifsoft.com/relo/] is decent of C++ development.

Emacs with cc-mode[http://cc-mode.sourceforge.net/] is also a great choice.

I also recommend OpenWatcom[http://www.openwatcom.org/index.php/Main_Page] for Windows users. It supplies executables to emulate Microsoft C++ Compilers, plus it is open source.

[blood8815]

im having trouble getting the source file, I have MinGW and Crimson Editor

BTW, im new