I agree, I tried using Dev-C++ for a while and the compiler kept saying alot of standard libraries were deprecated and it was having alot of trouble reading my code

for the longest time i thought it was me and i kept looking online for what i was doing wrong until i finally tried antoher compiler and realized that the compiler that comes with Dev was a bad compiler

I use Borland C++ compiler 5.5. It doesnt include an IDE but it is free. There are many 3rd party IDEs available which can be used along with this awesome compiler.

Get it Here Download the compiler.

Note that you must register before you downlode the compiler.

I would say the free version of Microsoft Visual C++ Express... here's my other (quite a bit more detailed) post about how to get native (non-framework) apps to compile...

I had to put down the DevC++ ... trust me...

This post shows how to get it all to work...
(2 downloads, 2 files changed, 3 settings changed - it's easy, trust me...)

http://www.astahost.com/index.php?showtopi...mp;#entry111433


Again, I would recommend this as a free IDE as opposed to DevC++ which has yet to be updated since about 2005 anyways...

Personally I use Dev-Shed C++. It is OK but has some bugs for example you need to run all the files from My Documents rather then just pressing run (that buttom seems to not work). I could never figure out the debug but I dont need it anyway. I needed to download some extra things for it to work with my programs but other then that I would need to say it is fairly good.
I have only used the trial verson of Visual C++ by Microsoft but I think this is a good compiler also. I didn't need to download extra things and it ran file without me going in and opening them manually. I know it has some handy settings (though I didn't use them) but I have found some good C++ tutorials aimed directly to the Visuall C++. The only error I ever came up with was while assigning bool variables. They are case-sensitive on Visuall C++.
Hope this helps,
Sparkx

It depends on what are your purposes:
Are you going to develop for windows only? or are you going to take a broader range of OS's?
MS Visual C++ is probably the best windows-only compiler, but it is a bit different of the other "general" compilers, like gcc. It has a good IDE though, and even a RAD solution with MFC and now also CLR...
However, if you are more like me, and you prefer to write cross-platform apps, then you should consider GCC (for windows its MinGW). Ofc, here it's all about pure C++ (and without RAD -> wouldnt be crossplatform otherwise)...
If you are going for Crossplatform RAD, it'd be a good idea to combine an app made with Lazarus (delphi lang, only for the interface of your app) with an external library (C++ lang, providing you all your c++ freedom).

Hope this was some use for you...

check whether a particular function belongs to some header file
Looking For A Good C++ Compiler

I m making a parser for C programs which writes all the functions of the program which are not defined ie functions with no signature.The compiler will show errors for these function calls.
So for that I wrote a code which seperates out all the functions which are called and all the functions with signatures and writes these two in two seperate files 'file1.Txt' & 'file2.Txt'.Now I look for those entries in file1 for which there is no entry in file2.These are the functions which are not defined by the user but they can be there in the header files included.So my question is that how do I ckeck for their definitions or prototypes in the header files.

-question by ginni_gemini

I'd go for the dev-C++ too, nice interface and only uses 30 MB or something like that , although incompatable with Visual Studio as it uses the MinGW compiler, worst part is you can have hard time searching for linking libraries ( libxxxx.a )

I just use Linux and there is a compiler included (well you might have to apt-get it first) called gcc. Although if you are using Windows then I guess you can use Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition (but that's a bit huge to download) but i would still recommend Linux for programming, especially "software development".

DEv-C++ is the best type of compiler for beginners. Dont forget to get the Ming-G or something like that version of Dev-C++.

Dev-C++ is not for professional programming, just for starters.