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hi... i start learning C in linux.. with gcc and some manuals... its works fine.. but when i tried to change te code to win.. i dont found any manual... you know any ??

or a manual for programming in C for windows... obiusly only commands, no objects oriented nor graphic programs

thx

http://www.borland.com/downloads/download_cbuilder.html click 'Compiler'

I think that is what you're looking for...

Because C is C on *nix, win, and mac... with a few different headder files, but that shouldn't cause you problems for a while.

If that's not what you're asking... could you rephrase...?

You should look into http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/
and http://www.mingw.org/ for GNU development on the win32 platform

Regards,
MERLiiN

I hate supporting Win32 development, but you might be interested in Dev-C++. It's a free, full featured development environment for Win32. The underlying compiler is the MinGW version of gcc (which effectively means: same source code, different target platform). Most command-line-only code should work straightforwardly.

You can try [url=http://www.cygwin.com]Cygwin[/url]. You can transform an X-Windows application in a Native Windows Application with only few clicks.

Silmy wrote:You can transform an X-Windows application in a Native Windows Application with only few clicks.

It's not fully native. A Cygwin-program always needs the Cygwin DLL, which acts as a wrapper for Unix/Linux functions. Using MinGW-gcc eliminates this need.

I didn't think of this one before:
Apache portable runtime. They have allready done all the hard stuff for you.
http://apr.apache.org/

MERLiiN

merliin wrote:I didn't think of this one before:
Apache portable runtime. They have allready done all the hard stuff for you.

They've rather reinvented the wheel. Also Cygwin is a lot more distributed, so you wouldn't want your program to be dependend on the APR-libraries.

Use MinGW-gcc and don't be dependend at all.

and if you need certain posix specefic things you can allways use the cygwin libraries.

There are some differences between Windows® and UNIX programing
some big (eg. sockets, GUIs) and some small (Sleep() and sleep()).

If you're starting to program on Windows® i recomend the dev-cpp interface (mingw compiler) and maybe you should read something at www.msdn.com

Linux have good sides ... But and windows have a good sides :pPp

for my university exam of c++ we made console applications, so i use a simple c++ editor and compiler like devc++ (http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html)

about manual i dont know i have a book and for some strange applications of c++ i ask help on chat or search references on google

psyx0th wrote:There are some differences between Windows® and UNIX programing
some big (eg. sockets, GUIs) and some small (Sleep() and sleep()).

A well written program using sockets runs equally well on both Windows and Linux (we're not talking about Unix, but the statement holds for both). GUIs are another story, but you wouldn't want to use native Windows GUI functions anyway, because they are a pain to work with. Use some toolkit like GTK instead.

The non-capitalized sleep() function should be available in any standard C library, so you can still use sleep() (and in most cases like in MinGW also usleep()) in Windows. However, sleep() is bad anyway. Use something else for short delays, unless you're writing small, pure console applications.

i might have to give devc++ a go again - i tried it about 4 years ago aye and i went back to my emacs/g++ combo. i wasnt that impressed...

tokyo wrote:i might have to give devc++ a go again - i tried it about 4 years ago aye and i went back to my emacs/g++ combo. i wasnt that impressed...

If you're comfortable with Emacs, then stick with it. An Emacs user has no reason to switch to Dev-C++.