C++ compiler

Would anyone here recommend Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express or should I just stick with bloodshed dev or a borland compiler.

chronicburst wrote: Would anyone here recommend Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express or should I just stick with bloodshed dev or a borland compiler.

The fuck is wrong with you?

Edit:Sorry, I'm still dead pissed off and depressed.

It's an excellent IDE to work with and comes with a built in online web help feature and more helpful (IMO) debugger info than Dev-Cpp, however, I would not recommend using ONLY MSVC++ because you have to often incorporate non-standard code to make it work for instance, you must #include "stdafx.h", if you work with GUI programming, you'll find that you'll often have to change the parameters a bit, for instance //note the _T("") MessageBox(NULL,_T("Text"),_T("Caption"),MB_ICONEXCLAMATION|MB_OK); and if you do not do that, it can give confusing output (especially in more lengthy code) to someone who is used to a different compiler.

I would just stick with bloodshed.

I personally like visual C++

chronicburst wrote: Would anyone here recommend Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express or should I just stick with bloodshed dev or a borland compiler.

Are you sure you want to learn C++ right now? Weren't you learning python? As I remember, you were have problems with the basics not too long ago. There is a lot more to grasp in C++. But, what ever floats your boat.

Notepad++ pwns… for a dev environment. Use MinGW for a compiler.

Zephyr_Pure wrote: Notepad++ pwns.

Doesn't compile shit though :P

Zephyr_Pure wrote: Notepad++ pwns. spyware wrote: Doesn't compile shit though :P

Note the edit; was playing Carbon and got in a cop chase. Didn't have time to finish it out immediately. Nice catch. :)

Zephyr_Pure wrote: Notepad++ pwns… for a dev environment. Use MinGW for a compiler.

Ditto

Zephyr_Pure wrote: Notepad++ pwns… for a dev environment. Use MinGW for a compiler.

That's what I use.

Zephyr_Pure wrote: Notepad++ pwns… for a dev environment. Use MinGW for a compiler.

when i had my windows partition i tried it, but found dev-cpp to be easier overall.

All right thanks for the opinions. I will write my scripts in notepad ++ and use MSVC++ to execute and debug. I have to agree on notepad++ being kick ass.

Why not write your code in VC++ if you're compiling in it?

It's a nice dev environment, and the help functions are wonderful :happy:

Hmm, I use Codeblocks + Mingw, it works pretty nicely.

Notepad2 + MinGW FTW.