9 replies to this topic

[genux]

I am just using different OS's and then thought, since I am using different OS's and libraries what is everyones favorite compiler for there OS of choice ?

I mainly use Linux.. and I am g++/gcc

when in Windows I use the Visual Studio express to do some development work in.

What does everyone else use ?

[lintwurm]

Thought I'd be the first to reply ^_^

I also use linux mainly, so g++ and gcc work well for me.
I also use netbeans if I have to write a program to run in windows... (because I can program it in a real OS and then just recompile in windoze...)

[John]

I use gcc.

@lintwurm, Netbeans is not a compiler.

[lintwurm]

lol true... wrote that while being really tired (still am)...
Still an awesome IDE though...

[James.H]

My fav would have to be the gcc compiler!

[WingedPanther]

gcc/minGW

[genux]

gcc wins the day then :).. it is such a great compiler too :).

[hjohni]

Good reply!:)

[outsid3r]

GCC (in past, GNU Compiler Collection) nowadays is more like GNU Crappy Compiler. The main advantage of this compiler is that it compiles to several different platforms, but GCC is slow because of heavy optimization algorithms, that are not so good as people think. You can find better specific platform compilers, for example, if you are programming on windows you would have much better results with VC++ than with GCC.
I am now saying that GCC is bad, in fact it's good but really needs improvement now.

[Ancient Dragon]

On *nix I use VI as the text editor and g++ as the compiler. Are there any other free compilers for *nix? The only reason to use g++, gcc or MinGW on MS-Windows is for portability. Microsoft compilers don't support many of the header files/libraries that are on *nix, but MinGW has ported them.

ON MS-Windows I use either VC++ 2008/2010 or Code::Blocks with MinGW compiler. I also have C-Free, which is a C only compiler, but rarely ever use it.