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Richard Palmer

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Aug 26, 2012, 11:36:27 PM8/26/12
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.. Microsoft visual studio no longer contains a c compiler -- only a
compiler for c++. Is there a c compiler available that is free, works in
W7, and is straigntforward to download? I am having problems downloading
any of the other compilers referenced in the documentation (probably due to
my ignorance regarding the downloading process). Alternately, can the
visualstudio c++ compiler be set to handle c code appropriately for
compiling in Mathematica to C.

Thanks in advance for anyone knowing something.

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amzoti

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Aug 28, 2012, 4:50:47 AM8/28/12
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Did you look at the list on here?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compilers#C_compilers

Oliver Jennrich

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Aug 28, 2012, 4:51:39 AM8/28/12
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Richard Palmer <rhpa...@gmail.com> writes:

> .. Microsoft visual studio no longer contains a c compiler -- only a
> compiler for c++. Is there a c compiler available that is free, works in
> W7, and is straigntforward to download?

http://www.mingw.org/ provides not only a c,c++, fortran, ada, objc,
java compiler but also a couple of really useful tools.

http://www.cygwin.com/ provides even more really useful tools.

If you 'just' want a working c-compiler try mingw.

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James Stein

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Aug 28, 2012, 4:53:03 AM8/28/12
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I googled for
free C compiler
and got more links than I could imagine investigating...

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Richard Palmer <rhpa...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> .. Microsoft visual studio no longer contains a c compiler -- only a
> compiler for c++. Is there a c compiler available that is free, works in

Richard Palmer

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Aug 28, 2012, 4:53:13 AM8/28/12
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Hi James.

I googled for free c compilers for windows 7 myself before I sent the note.
The links that I checked decided that what I really wanted was a c++
compiler. One of the sites was downloading viruses.

When I left the post, I had spend more than an hour looking by myself. As
you can see from my note, I rarely post and do not spend my time trying to
get others to do my work for me.

Thanks anyway.

Frank K

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Aug 29, 2012, 1:12:51 AM8/29/12
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I've compiled c programs using Visual Studio 10, through Mathematica's CCompilerDriver package.

christopher arthur

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Aug 30, 2012, 4:07:54 AM8/30/12
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just use gcc??

Frank K a �crit :
> On Sunday, August 26, 2012 11:36:27 PM UTC-4, Richard Palmer wrote:
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Richard Palmer

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Aug 31, 2012, 4:01:39 AM8/31/12
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Thanks for the comments regarding the c-compiler. I was looking for one so
I could use the mm8 compile feature using the c compiler. I have
downloaded several, but have not been able to set the linkage up. My
problem.

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:08 AM, christopher arthur <chris....@gmail.com
> wrote:

> just use gcc??
>
> Frank K a =E9crit :
> > On Sunday, August 26, 2012 11:36:27 PM UTC-4, Richard Palmer wrote:
> >
> > I've compiled c programs using Visual Studio 10, through Mathematica's
> CCompilerDriver package.
> >
> >
> >
>
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