Hello again don't groan but I've come back.

This time I'm going to teach myself about C++ and will be doing so accross the following three platforms.

Win XP
Debian
Win 98

I'm heavily into free-stuff (like gnu gpl etc) and have only a copy of VB6 sitting on the 98 box. I have no cash to purchase additional / new M$ C++ stuff and so need something I can use to compile with on Win XP which to be honest is likely to be the main box.

Sooner or later the debian PC will be usefull and I might even compile stuff on that too.

I'm going to follow: http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0226430/...tructure.xhtml if no one minds as it looks like a good intro.

So my question, this time in English. Please can you point me at a Free as in beer and speach C++ compiler that a total noob can use.

Thanks.