command line compiler

[CyberCarsten]

I am looking for a command line compiler to use at the university for variuos projects. I have tried Cygwin and MinGW but I couldn't get them to work properly...any one know any good command line compilers and linkers for Windows?

[azteched]

All compilers can be used from the command line - the IDE just does the command line for you.

[CyberCarsten]

Yes but do you know any free for Windows?

[CornedBee]

Microsoft offers the command line version of their 7.1 tools for free, search the forum.

[CyberCarsten]

I downloaded the Visual C++ Toolkit 2003.(Can it work with ANSI C?)
Also, how do you tell it where the include dir is, since i'm getting errors of it not finding header files?

[CornedBee]

cl /?
should give you a list of all compiler switches, including how to set the include dir. In addition, I think the INCLUDE environment variable is used for looking up include directories, and the LIB envvar for static libraries.

It can handle ANSI C89, not C99.

[CyberCarsten]

I have tried that, but either i'm blind or it isn't there

[CornedBee]

It's under the preprocessor section of /?, in the right column. /I is the switch you need.

[CyberCarsten]

It still won't compile it. Giving me an Access Denied error

cl /I <C:\program files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003\include> main.c

[CornedBee]

You have to use " for quoting, < and > are for redirection.

[CyberCarsten]

By using only the " gives me the error on missing headers

[CornedBee]

Which headers? For windows.h and related, I think you have to install the Windows SDK separately.

[sunburnt]

If you want to compile as C code, pass the /TC option to the compiler. I think C++ (/TP) is the default.

[CyberCarsten]

I was trying to compile a simple hello world program using iostream.h, but I'll try the /TC option.

[CornedBee]

The VC++2003 compiler no longer includes the non-standard .h C++ headers, use the non-.h versions:
#include <iostream>

Don't forget about the namespace std.

[CyberCarsten]

thanks