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Jun 5, 2003, 8:37:28 PM6/5/03
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I want to teach my grandson to program math functions which are easy in C.
However, his computer is a WindowsXP platform.

Is it possible to write executables in C that will work on a WinXP machine?
If so, what C language program should I purchase: Microsoft C, etc?

Thanks
Doc

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CBFalconer

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Jun 5, 2003, 10:57:13 PM6/5/03
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Doc wrote:
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> I want to teach my grandson to program math functions which are
> easy in C. However, his computer is a WindowsXP platform.
>
> Is it possible to write executables in C that will work on a
> WinXP machine? If so, what C language program should I purchase:
> Microsoft C, etc?

None. Don't feed the evil empire. I would recommend something
gcc based, such as DJGPP to work from the command line, possibly
Cygwin or Mingw. There are lots of IDEs available, and the
quality is higher. There is also lcc-win32. Only the DJGPP
version is largely command line limited. DJGPP and Cygwin try to
be very close to Posix standards, Mingw less so, and lcc-win32 is
very Microsoft like, but C only. All available free. My choice
would be DJGPP.

This is OT for c.l.c, which focuses on portable ISO standard C.
See the FAQ also.

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Russell Hanneken

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Jun 5, 2003, 11:04:41 PM6/5/03
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"Doc" <arholub@ix._XXX_netcom.com> wrote in message
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> Is it possible to write executables in C that will work on a WinXP
> machine?

Yes.

> If so, what C language program should I purchase: Microsoft C, etc?

Well, you have quite a few choices. The most popular commercial products
are Microsoft Visual C++ (yes, it compiles C as well as C++), Borland C++
Builder, and Metrowerks CodeWarrior.

A number of free compilers are available. Here's one list:

http://snurse-l.org/acllc-c++/faq.html#q5.1

LCC and Pacific C are probably nice for beginners.

Hope that helps,

Russell Hanneken
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Daniel Fox

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Jun 6, 2003, 12:15:31 AM6/6/03
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"Doc" <arholub@ix._XXX_netcom.com> wrote in
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> I want to teach my grandson to program math functions which are easy
> in C. However, his computer is a WindowsXP platform.
>
> Is it possible to write executables in C that will work on a WinXP
> machine? If so, what C language program should I purchase: Microsoft
> C, etc?
>
> Thanks
> Doc
>

Don't purchase anything.

http://www.cygwin.com/
http://www.mingw.org/
http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/

- Daniel

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