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Shady Simpson
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Posted: 19th Jun 2003 20:40
Hi,

I was just wondering what you guys used as a C++ compiler, and if possible a list of what I need to download. That might sound a bit odd, but there is a few where you have to install it manually (without an installer).

Any replies would be great,

Thanx.

P.S. I want a free compiler.
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Posted: 19th Jun 2003 20:51
www.bloodshed.net

Free, comes with IDE, all that can be said really.

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Posted: 19th Jun 2003 22:11
Or buy the latest issue of PCPlus - they have CodeWarrior 6 on one of the Cover CDs
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Posted: 19th Jun 2003 23:41
Bloodshed's tool is excellent, I recommend it

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Eddie Gordo
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Posted: 20th Jun 2003 00:07
whats codewarrior 6 ive used bloodshed and recomend it also

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Shady Simpson
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Posted: 20th Jun 2003 00:27
Is Bloodshed that Dev C++?

is that good?

Thanx.

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Yes, on both counts.

CodeWarrior 6 - Java/C/C++ development system, Integrated IDE, Integrated debugger, but only has DX7 headers
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Posted: 20th Jun 2003 10:43
CW6 does not install on a user account with XP Home

I wish the stupid software developers would learn to make thing useable. I mean its ok installing files to system32, but why not make a option in the program at start-up that checks for DLL's etc. at start up and if they are not there look in the local dir to the app?

The maybe i would buy some of the software!

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Posted: 20th Jun 2003 14:43
and that is why i use InstallSheild Developer martyn hehee ... it automatically sets up the difference between the Windows

you can setup the lasted Dx header and such with CodeWarrior, or so i've been told - but i never figured out how.

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Posted: 21st Jun 2003 15:53
Had no trouble installing CW6 on my XP Home machine - runs too!
No idea what I'm going to use it for though, as I've got VC and VC.NET

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Posted: 21st Jun 2003 16:08
Quote: "Had no trouble installing CW6 on my XP Home machine - runs too!"


Try on a user account.

Then it wont

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Posted: 21st Jun 2003 16:27 Edited at: 21st Jun 2003 16:28
I've got 5 different user (names) on this machine - you cant use the thing without selecting one... Or are you talking about account type ?

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Posted: 21st Jun 2003 16:29
account types, limited user account or admin is the XP home options, i am a limited yser so i cannot change/add anything to C:/windows/

so installing is a pain!

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Posted: 21st Jun 2003 18:12
Not surprising with a limited account - thats why its there : To prevent programs from being installed...

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Posted: 21st Jun 2003 22:02
onto the system32.

I can install a whole load of other things.

Anyway, under C:\Documents and Settings\Martyn there is a windows folder.

Surely a good system would be to have a system32 folder under there and when a prog loads a dll from c:\system32 it should look under C:\Documents and Settings\Martyn\windows\system32\ too.

Then you cannot affect the computer in any way, and have whatever you want installed without any possibility of buggering the main system32 folder.

See my thinking?

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Posted: 21st Jun 2003 22:46
It would certainly be best to do that - unfortunately I dont see Microsoft incorporating in into Longhorn unfortunately...

Personally only Microsoft's updated files should install/be moved into SYSTEM or SYSTEM32, but unfortunately its not the case.

Like the registry - everything there should be in a .INI file - it would allow easy fixing, modification and backup.

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Posted: 21st Jun 2003 23:30
haha, why is there a windows folder there?

Nothing ever goes in there.

You would have though a compatability made could be implemented where you can run a win98 'shell' with the whole OS within a XP account.

If this happened MS would not have to worry about compatability issues they get sued on, casue if 98 shipped with all XPs. I mean only the runtimes and basic, XP works like a MS-DOS handling all file-system etc.

Oh well i had better stop now, getting too many useless ideas.

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Posted: 21st Jun 2003 23:39
I just wish I had the ability to write operating systems - Bill Gates would wish he hadn't been born then...

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2003 03:39
i'm sure it wouldn't be too great a challenge for you Toad, alot of kids i know generally get themselves a Linux Kernel and start tinkering to make thier own OS - just look at how many varieties of it are around.

i'm sure if you could rope someone else just as good as yourself into it you could make a pretty Decent OS , unless you wanted to make your own Kernel and an entirely new system altogether - there probably are some older systems like older MSDOS/WorkBench models which are currently available because they're no longer used you can use to learn how it was done
certainly be an interesting summer project eh hehee

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2003 03:59
It would have to be started from scratch - Linux isn't good enough to base a new OS on...

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2003 04:37
:: waits for the Linux mob to take Toady away to sacrifice to thier Red Hat wearing Penguin God ::
hehee, ya know i wouldn't mind having a bash at a simple OS either - but i'm not sure if it wouldn't be easier to start on a simpler computer like an old 2x86
can just imagine sitting there tinkering away over an asm assembler and that proud moment when i finally get a Dot on the screen

something thats always make me think long and hard has been the "Chicken and the Egg" complex for OS's ... i mean in order to program an Operating System you need some form of interface to actually program upon, but to have an interface to program on you need an Operating System
So where the heck do you start if you don't have another computer or viable language to use ... and how do you create a Hard Disk Partition to hold all of your work if you don't have an OS or language to create such a partition?

:: starts to feel his head hurt again ::

man i've got a headache and i've not even started programming an OS yet lol

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2003 13:09
Indeed - its rather complicated.

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2003 13:34
"It would have to be started from scratch - Linux isn't good enough to base a new OS on..."


and thats why mac and pc OS code have bsd parts from unix.lol

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I very much doubt Windows has parts of Linux in it...

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2003 16:36
Quote: "pc OS code have bsd parts from unix.lol"


well he did say PC not Windows ... however that said there are sections of Windows does have some Unix code in it, but that is only because it supports the Unix environment ... all Unix based OS's also have some Windows Core code for the exact same reasons.
Basically so they can all communicate with each other.

I wouldn't mind having a butchers at DOS 6.22's source to be honest, i mean although the model is genetically flawed perhaps it would be a good starting point because it is suppose to be the simplest.

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2003 16:53
Your probably thinking of the TCP/IP and/or IPX/SPX stack networking code...
I think you'll find that the Windows code for that is different to the Linux version, even though they produce the same (more or less) results.

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2003 18:03
Thanks for the BloodShed link, its a nice lill' tool

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Posted: 22nd Jun 2003 19:24
hi,

I've already found a problem, I bought a teach yourself book of C++ by Richard Riley and am understanding most of it but, none of the code given for examples work in Dev-C++ 5. I write the code into the compiler EXACTLY as shown, save it then Compile & run it. Now according to the book it should run perfect displaying "Hello World" in the prompt, but as you've probably guessed it didn't.

here is what i wrote:



I get three errors:

Line: File:
31 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\c++\backward\iostream.h
4 C:\Dev-Cpp\Examples\My Examples\hello.cpp
2 C:\Dev-Cpp\include\c++\backward\backward_warning.h:32

Message:
1: In file included from C:/Dev-Cpp/include/c++/backward/iostream.h
2: from C:/Dev-Cpp/Examples/My Examples/hello.cpp
3: #warning This file includes at least one deprecated or antiquated header. Please consider using one of the 32 headers found in section 17.4.1.2 of the C++ standard. Examples include substituting the <X> header for the <X.h> header for C++ includes, or <sstream> instead of the deprecated header <strstream.h>. To disable this warning use -Wno-deprecated.

Please try this on yours, do you get errors?
anyone know why this happens or can work it out?

thanx.

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You have a book based on pre-standardised C++.

You are just getting a warning. Either ignore it, or change the '#include' statements as it suggested (iostream.h -> iostream)
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right well I changed iostream.h to iostream as you said, ran it and then come up with more errors:

1. [Warning] In function `int main()':
2. `cout' undeclared (first use this
3. (Each undeclared identifier is

any suggestions on what to do?

btw, in Dev how do you ignore an error and carry on running the program?

thanx.

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personally i generally use stdio.h over iostream.h
also make sure you've linked the directories properly, i know Dev-C should have automatically added your source diretory - but if it hasn't then using the '#include < >' declaration just wont work.

try finding the file you want an copying it to the directory then using '#include " "'

also you might want to change your return to either TRUE or void... and your not passing anything back i'd suggest





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Shady, after the includes, put the line 'using namespace std;'. That should sort it out. As I said, you appear to have an old book, so it's unlikely you'll get anything running without tinkering.



Still, despite the age of the book, stick to it until you have an idea of what is what ... then you can decide what libraries you want to use, as Raven has shown. Unfortunately, his example won't work

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Ian i've never got printf( ) to work within C++ only sprintf( )
i know it should cause its a C function just it just refuses to.
Maybe thats just VC though

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Posted: 23rd Jun 2003 12:14 Edited at: 23rd Jun 2003 12:15
Sure you were writing a console application when using printf ?
It doesn't work when writing a Windows program (naturally)...

What would help is if you wrote a printf function (for Windows), that accepts the usual variable length parameters, and sticks it in a MessageBox as opposed to the console.

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Posted: 23rd Jun 2003 13:14
Finally, I got it working with what Ian told me to do. Woohoo!
btw, what does "using namespace std;" do or mean?

I would just like to understand everything before I continue,

thanx.

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It basically means use the standard namespace, ie its lets you use all standard commands (which you wouldn't normally have access to).

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i dunno... that something that confuses me about C, how there are different things to do the same op at different times.
Confuzing as heck

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Posted: 23rd Jun 2003 15:04 Edited at: 23rd Jun 2003 15:05
I know - I try to avoid the namespace command in all cases - gets too confusing (plus prone to errors) otherwise...

I dont use C++ fully (the most I do is use classes, and very occasionally the template command), everything else is done using C.

Finally found my old Blitz Basic 2 review...

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right, I've got another sort of problem...

I run a piece of code and it runs through too fast to see it even though it prompts the user for some input.

Here's the code:



The prompt window flashes up for a second and then goes without the user pressing anything.

Any suggestions?

Thanx.

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Posted: 23rd Jun 2003 17:54
run the program through the cmd

Otherwise dont return anything ??

Or somming like that, i am kinda a C++ NewBi

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Posted: 23rd Jun 2003 22:32
Here you go MrTAToad, here's a 'MessageBoxf' function.

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I think Raven might find that useful...

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Posted: 24th Jun 2003 08:56
yup Raven does... thanks Ian

slowly, slowly, Raven Learny

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Yes, you'll soon be allowed to actually use a keyboard...

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=P I use CodeWarrior... VC++ is good and all but some people rely on what it does for you... makes it so you really can't code too well without the VC++ compiler...

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i'm not sure if i'm ready for a real keyboard yet
i kinda like my tv tray with letters written on it

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Posted: 24th Jun 2003 14:11 Edited at: 24th Jun 2003 14:19
for the ultimate C++ manual (and up to date too..works with dev C++) go to

www.BruceEckel.com

you can download two books on c++, these are not the normal trashy mispelt tutorials you often get on websites, these are top class books, If I ever come across the treeware versions I will definitley buy them

Mentor.

ps: you could base a OS around Dr DOS (like they did with DOS and windoze) so that you had some MS compatability, you can still download Dr DOS (I installed it few weeks ago for a guy who had a low spec ex works machine) and you could develop the OS on some of the older DOS compilers you can still find out there (like Borland), just the thing to while away a few years on

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if you could find a site with the original DOS source setup or something that would be a great help
i'm totally useless at searching the net, especially if i actually need something.

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Posted: 24th Jun 2003 21:30
ok,

I think I've got the very basics of C++, (it's basically the same as DBPro just with more complex variables and stuff) anyways I want to be able to make windows stuff.

Does anyone know of a good book that could help me with this?

Thanx.

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Posted: 24th Jun 2003 21:50 Edited at: 24th Jun 2003 21:57
ok...here you go, source for DOS

http://www.freedos.org/

free to distribute with your code (GPL), so you could build an OS on the top, and.....

http://www.glue.umd.edu/~nsw/ench250/dostutor.htm
http://home7.inet.tele.dk/batfiles/
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/BatBasic.html
http://www.calarts.edu/network/dos.html

then all you have to do is build a program over the top that adds icons to files and folders and deletes/moves/makes them when you select and click and you have the start of an operating system (esp if you can find DOS drivers for your hardware )

Shady: see the post 2 up, one of the best manuals on C++ I have seen.

Mentor.

ps: alas Dr DOS has been bought out and is no longer freeware as the older versions originaly where, but the aforementioned FreeDOS is

pps: added the DOS tutorial sites cos I am not sure if anyone still knows the DOS commands or how to use them with .bat files.

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