Best PC ide and compiler?

[_Zack_]

hi all, im finally starting my chip8 emu after learning a lot of C coding first

Anyway, i was wondering which is the best c ide and compiler and if i will need any additional libarys to compile.


I only made a few programs like a calculator, word proccessor and paint program, and am wondering if i need anything new to compile...

i cant remember the one i used as my pc got wiped and i lost everything...

thanks in advance for your help

[smcd]

Lots of people recommend Dev-C++ as an IDE, and there is also MinGW Developer Studio for free, and a few others. You might even check into getting the Visual C++ 2005 Express from Microsoft and setting it up with the platform SDK etc. to allow it to make native Windows executables instead of .net only.

[Doomulation]

Remember that you can't use MFC with VC++ 2005 Express. I prefer Microsoft's studios because they look good and have good functionality. Though they can be buggy ;(

[Toasty]

Another vote for Dev-C++, though VC++ is nice too.

[Slougi]

Remember that you can't use MFC with VC++ 2005 Express. I prefer Microsoft's studios because they look good and have good functionality. Though they can be buggy ;(

Ugh, MFC sucks anyway, no big loss.

[Doomulation]

Ugh, MFC sucks anyway, no big loss.

To you yes, but maybe not to others. Point me to a better NATIVE framework that works like MFC, only better. And that does not mean WTL.

[smcd]

atl/wtl, win32gui, ultimate++, wxwidgets, qt...

[Doomulation]

Does ATL encapsulate window classes? ATL has its uses, especially with COM and Shell, but otherwise it isn't up to par with MFC.
WTL is bad, if you ask me. It doesn't even offer an easy window creation class.
As for the others... I'll look into them and compare them to MFC. But remember: MFC is an entire framework, not just for windows, graphics and GUI, but for other functionality as well.

[Falcon4ever]

My favorite IDE would be MS Visual Studio 2005 Professional in windows and KDevelop when doing a project in linux.

Fav. compiler? In windows just vs2k5's default and linux well latest stable gcc...

[Doomulation]

It's just a shame that VS2005 is so slow. If you don't have a Dual Core processor or a high end system, well... you're not going to very happy with it - because it IS slow. But it's IntelliSense is much better than previous versions which is definetly a plus.
Still, IntelliSense for C++ has always sucked and it still does.