
(jedit, visual studio, notepad++, far manager, midnight commander, vim, emacs).Īs you can see, there are many possible combinations. (gnu make, scons, cmake, qmake, msbuild, visual studio) (microsoft compiler, gcc, intel compiler, etc) To effictively develop you need 3 main components: There are others (openwatcom/borland c++ builder come to mind), but they are less "popular".

Two main compilers available on windows platform are Microsoft Compiler (Visual Studio express) and MinGW+GCC. As far as I know all compilers are easy to use once you learned how to use decent build system and have toolchain running. If you don't know where to start, download and install visual studio express from microsoft's website.ĭoes anyone know of a c/c++ compiler that is easily usable with windows?ĭefine "easy".
