Visual Studio 2004 Enterprise

[John]

i got a copy of visual studio 2004 and its wrecking my head. it keeps trying
to force me to use wizards to do stuff. all i want is to be able to compile
ansi standard c on windows, and then port it to linux to run on a web
server.

so my question is, does visual studio support ansi c, or just c++ and c#?
coz it doesnt seem to be compiling my great 'hello world' program that im
doing in my 'standard c for dummies in 24 hours in a nutshell' book

 

[Jonas]

i got a copy of visual studio 2004 and its wrecking my head. it keeps trying
to force me to use wizards to do stuff. all i want is to be able to compile
ansi standard c on windows, and then port it to linux to run on a web
server.

so my question is, does visual studio support ansi c, or just c++ and c#?
coz it doesnt seem to be compiling my great 'hello world' program that im
doing in my 'standard c for dummies in 24 hours in a nutshell' book

This newgroup is not about specific compilers... Having said that, try "cl
foo.c" from the command prompt.

 

[John]

thanks

This newgroup is not about specific compilers... Having said that, try "cl
foo.c" from the command prompt.

 

[Randy Howard]

This newgroup is not about specific compilers... Having said that, try "cl
foo.c" from the command prompt.

Better yet, get djgpp or Dev-C++ for Windows instead. It'll be very
similar to gcc when it comes time to port to Linux.

 

[Tom St Denis]

Better yet, get djgpp or Dev-C++ for Windows instead. It'll be very
similar to gcc when it comes time to port to Linux.

Or you could just get Cygwin which is a suite of development tools including
a UNIX emulation layer. Gives you gcc [et al.] as well as userland tools
such as tar, bash, sed, nano, etc...

Tom

 

[Richard Heathfield]

Better yet, get djgpp or Dev-C++ for Windows instead. It'll be very
similar to gcc when it comes time to port to Linux.

Or you could just get Cygwin which is a suite of development tools
including
a UNIX emulation layer. Gives you gcc [et al.] as well as userland tools
such as tar, bash, sed, nano, etc...

....or he could just save himself a lot of heartache by installing Linux now
rather than later.

 

[gswork]

i got a copy of visual studio 2004 and its wrecking my head. it keeps trying
to force me to use wizards to do stuff.

you've been reading that Harry Potter book again haven't you?

 

[Joona I Palaste]

you've been reading that Harry Potter book again haven't you?

Wasn't there some sort of boy whose favourite catchphrase was "wizard!"?
Used as an adjective. In a non-Harry-Potter book.
Bonus points to anyone who can identify where this quote comes from:
"Right! Orf we go! Contact! Jolly good show. Wizard, what?"

 

[Richard Harnden]

Wasn't there some sort of boy whose favourite catchphrase was "wizard!"?
Used as an adjective. In a non-Harry-Potter book.
Bonus points to anyone who can identify where this quote comes from:
"Right! Orf we go! Contact! Jolly good show. Wizard, what?"

Er ... "Biggles invokes Undefined Behaviour" ?

 

[Randy Howard]

...or he could just save himself a lot of heartache by installing Linux now
rather than later.

By far the best suggestion...

 

[Joona I Palaste]

Wasn't there some sort of boy whose favourite catchphrase was "wizard!"?
Used as an adjective. In a non-Harry-Potter book.

Now I remember, that was supposed to be Anakin Skywalker in "The Phantom
Menace".

 

[Tom St Denis]

Better yet, get djgpp or Dev-C++ for Windows instead. It'll be very
similar to gcc when it comes time to port to Linux.

Or you could just get Cygwin which is a suite of development tools
including
a UNIX emulation layer. Gives you gcc [et al.] as well as userland tools
such as tar, bash, sed, nano, etc...

...or he could just save himself a lot of heartache by installing Linux now
rather than later.

Yeah cuz, hehe, snort, Linux is like the shiznitz.

I like linux just as much as the next guy but there are certain cases where
windows still wins [e.g. Laptops].

Tom

 

[Randy Howard]

Yeah cuz, hehe, snort, Linux is like the shiznitz.

I like linux just as much as the next guy but there are certain cases where
windows still wins [e.g. Laptops].

Strange, runs fine on my laptop.

 

[Keith Thompson]

Yeah cuz, hehe, snort, Linux is like the shiznitz.

I like linux just as much as the next guy but there are certain
cases where windows still wins [e.g. Laptops].

Strange, runs fine on my laptop.

I have an idea, let's have a Windows vs. Linux flameware.

Somewhere else.

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