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Hey there,

I've had lovely lovely experiences downloading source tarballs for Linux, with no problems at all with gcc and the standard GNU tools etc.

However, I have never been able to compile Windows C/C++ source code from the Internet. Everything from other people's home projects to the PHP source code just fails for various reasons. Errors like missing header files and symbols.

What are your experiences with this?

-pcweirdo.

I've never had any problems, I use this program to compile etc.

http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html

I'll give that a go next time. Thanks!

-pcweirdo.

That is very common for me, not beeing able to reproduce a workable executable. Usually cause its missing a dll, file, or setting in some ini file.

Do not bother to much about it actually, since I usually write my own programs, so I do not need others.

I do understand that its a good side to it too, since if you can solve the problem in compiling the source, then you also under the code and therefore can be treaten as safe, while if you dont read the code you never gonna know what it does.