Is it better to download Cygwin on Win XP

[broli]

and then learn C language ?

[Nelu]

Re: Is it better to download Cygwin on Win XP

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:33:20 -0700, broli wrote:

and then learn C language ?

Don't post half of the question in the subject and half in the body of
the message.

I think there are other options of having a C compiler on your machine as
well: Visual C++ compiler (which compiles C if you change the file
extension to .c from .cpp), djgpp, mingw gcc. Given my not so good
experience with cygwin, I would rather switch to Linux or use Linux in a
virtual machine under Windows (I use Windows in a virtual machine under
Linux :D). An open source virtual machine (bought by SUN it seems) is
Innotek's Virtual Box. I think vmware is kind of free, also.


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[Ioannis Vranos]

Re: Is it better to download Cygwin on Win XP

broli wrote:

and then learn C language ?

For Windows XP, you can download VC++ 2008 Express Edition for free, and
use it to learn C95.

[Ioannis Vranos]

Re: Is it better to download Cygwin on Win XP

Ioannis Vranos wrote:

broli wrote:

>and then learn C language ?

>
>
For Windows XP, you can download VC++ 2008 Express Edition for free, and
use it to learn C95.

That is, Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition.

[santosh]

Re: Is it better to download Cygwin on Win XP

broli wrote:

and then learn C language ?

Perhaps. It depends on your requirements doesn't it? To you need a full
UNIX environment? If not then you might consider MinGW+Msys instead of
Cygwin. MinGW can produce standalone Windows executables that don't
depend on an emulation library, however you cannot write UNIX programs
with it and run them under Windows; for that you'll need Cygwin.

Another option is DJGPP, if you want to be able to run under DOS as well
as Windows. There are also other Windows specific compilers like
PellesC and lcc-win32 that you might find convenient. Microsoft of
course offers it's own compilers, both crippled "free" downloads as
well as the full Visual Studio suite. There are also a plethora of well
regarded commercial compilers for Windows like Comeau C++, Intel C++
etc.

What you want to use depends on your requirements, which you have not
specified.

[Chris Dollin]

Re: Is it better to download Cygwin on Win XP

broli wrote:

[subject line]Is it better to download Cygwin on Win XP

and then learn C language ?

Better than what, for what?

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