polychrom@softhome.net said:
AB said:

<snip>

>If you're on Windows, then you can try Visual C++ 2005 Express
>Edition. Microsoft gives it for free. If you're on Linux, then you can
>try out GCC. It usually comes bundled in the distro.
>
Yes, on Windows. How many resources it required? Is it compact?

No.

If you want neat, clean, compact, go for Digital Mars's compiler:

<http://www.digitalmars.com>

No installation required - just stick it in an intelligently-named directory
(e.g. C:\DMC) and you're done. (For easiest use, you have to make one
teeny-weeny change to your path - see the readme file - but that's no big
deal.)

Richard Heathfield ():

polychrom@softhome.net said:
AB said:

<snip>
>
>If you're on Windows, then you can try Visual C++ 2005 Express
>Edition. Microsoft gives it for free. If you're on Linux, then you can
>try out GCC. It usually comes bundled in the distro.
>
Yes, on Windows. How many resources it required? Is it compact?

No.

If you want neat, clean, compact, go for Digital Mars's compiler:

<http://www.digitalmars.com>

No installation required - just stick it in an intelligently-named directory
(e.g. C:\DMC) and you're done. (For easiest use, you have to make one
teeny-weeny change to your path - see the readme file - but that's no big
deal.)

polychrom@softhome.net said:

Is the Digital Mars C++ compiler better then ms Visual C++ 2005
Express?

Define better.

How many size required this ms Visual C++ 2005 Express?

Digital Mars is tiny. I don't know how big VC2005Express is, but knowing
Microsoft, it'll be huge.

14 Jul 2006 05:21:22 -0700, polychrom@softhome.net wrote:

>
>Richard Heathfield ??(?):
>
>polychrom@softhome.net said:
>AB said:
>>
><snip>
>>
>>If you're on Windows, then you can try Visual C++ 2005 Express
>>Edition. Microsoft gives it for free. If you're on Linux, then you can
>>try out GCC. It usually comes bundled in the distro.
>>
>Yes, on Windows. How many resources it required? Is it compact?
>>
>No.
>>
>If you want neat, clean, compact, go for Digital Mars's compiler:
>>
><http://www.digitalmars.com>
>>
>No installation required - just stick it in an intelligently-named directory
>(e.g. C:\DMC) and you're done. (For easiest use, you have to make one
>teeny-weeny change to your path - see the readme file - but that's no big
>deal.)
>>
>--
>Richard Heathfield
>"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
>http://www.cpax.org.uk
>email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)
>
>
>Is the Digital Mars C++ compiler better then ms Visual C++ 2005
>Express? How many size required this ms Visual C++ 2005 Express? I
>would preffer do not install toll I use once per year.
>
Digital Mars is good. You might also take a look at www.openwatcom.org

"AB" <abjbhat@gmail.comwrote in
news:1152882174.018939.157050@m73g2000cwd.googlegr oups.com:

To make things a little clearerVisual C++ 2005 Express is an
IDE, not just a compiler. It's a 450 MB (approx) download. If you
want only the command line compiler, try the .NET Framework SDK.
It includes the C++ compiler, without the IDE. And yes, it is
completely free even though it is from Microsoft.

For a free windows C compiler you could try mingw (a gcc port) or
openwatcom. They are each around 100Mb, installed, depending on the
options you choose.

2006-07-14, polychrom@softhome.net <polychrom@softhome.netwrote:
Is there some good and convenient C compiler (freeware), to compile C
source code? Just compile ready source code, some handy tool for non
programmers.

A compiler is almost by definition a tool not used by "non programmers",
but if you need one for Windows, I recommend DJGPP.

I'm not sure how big it is, but it doesn't have an IDE or anything, so
that probably counts for something.

14 Jul 2006 04:40:25 -0700, in comp.lang.c , polychrom@softhome.net
wrote:

>
>AB ??(?):
>
>polychrom@softhome.net wrote:
>Is there some good and convenient C compiler (freeware), to compile C
>source code? Just compile ready source code, some handy tool for non
>programmers.
>>
>thanks.
>>
>>
>If you're on Windows, then you can try Visual C++ 2005 Express
>Edition. Microsoft gives it for free. If you're on Linux, then you can
>try out GCC. It usually comes bundled in the distro.
>
>Yes, on Windows. How many resources it required? Is it compact?

Like all MS software, its enormous.

You can get gcc for windows too, try the cygwin implementation, it
works fine.

Mark McIntyre <markmcintyre@spamcop.netwrote in
@4ax.com:

14 Jul 2006 04:40:25 -0700, in comp.lang.c ,
polychrom@softhome.net wrote:
>
>>
>>AB ??(?):
>>
polychrom@softhome.net wrote:
Is there some good and convenient C compiler (freeware), to
compile C source code? Just compile ready source code, some
handy tool for non programmers.
>
thanks.

If you're on Windows, then you can try Visual C++ 2005 Express
Edition. Microsoft gives it for free. If you're on Linux, then
you can try out GCC. It usually comes bundled in the distro.
>>
>>Yes, on Windows. How many resources it required? Is it compact?
>
Like all MS software, its enormous.

You can get gcc for windows too, try the cygwin implementation,
it
works fine.

mingw gives you the same thing with less hassle.

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:43:34 UTC, polychrom@softhome.net wrote:

Different compilers produce the different size EXE of the same source
code?

Not only different compilers but the same compiler using different
flags results in different object code size. Using the same/different
linkers with different flagc have influence on the size of the object
they create.

If so, however, the better is compilers that produce a small, compact
code.

I will need to change(configure) URL in source code, how do better deal
with this?

When the size of the object created by compiler/linker is really
critical you have to experiment around with different
compilers/linkers and different flags to them every time you
compiles/links again. There is no general rule available on that.