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_James_ · Sep 6th, 2006, 5:21 PM

Which one?

There is borland C++ 5.5 which is old. Its requires you to make some configuration files for it to work but thats not hard. There is also Turbo C++ which they just released. I have not tried Turbo C++ but I have doubts that Borland can get back to the glory days based from the recent stuff they have made. They should both compile Win32 programs. If you are looking for an easy to use C compiler for Win32 development then LCC is good as you just have to run a simple installer and there is even a good text editor and debugger included.

You could also download Visual C++ 2005 Express and then the Platform SDK. This would take over 1GB of downloading and you still need to follow a simple guilde to get VC++ Express to compile Win32 apps.

Sep 6th, 2006, 5:21 PM	#4
_James_ Newbie Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: UK Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	Which one? There is borland C++ 5.5 which is old. Its requires you to make some configuration files for it to work but thats not hard. There is also Turbo C++ which they just released. I have not tried Turbo C++ but I have doubts that Borland can get back to the glory days based from the recent stuff they have made. They should both compile Win32 programs. If you are looking for an easy to use C compiler for Win32 development then LCC is good as you just have to run a simple installer and there is even a good text editor and debugger included. You could also download Visual C++ 2005 Express and then the Platform SDK. This would take over 1GB of downloading and you still need to follow a simple guilde to get VC++ Express to compile Win32 apps.