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[Tony's my name]

Hello all,

This post may be out of place, but I'm not having any
luck searching the net for compilers to download. I'm
looking for a visual C++ compiler, and a visual Basic
compiler. If anyone can help, please let me know.

Thank you,
Tony

[Jerry Coffin]

Sign up for MSDN Universal, and you can download all of MS Visual Studio from the MSDN Subscriber's Download area. (Warning, unless you have a VERY fast connection, this will take an impractical amount of time.)

That is, of course, assuming that you wouldn't be crazy enough to try to not only steal a copy of a commercial software, but would even go so far as to publicly advertise it, and to a bunch of programmers at that. (In case it isn't obvious, many programmers aren't very excited about people who steal the fruits of either their labor, or the labor of other programmers either.)

If you want to download a free C++ compiler, you might want to take a look at ftp.cygnus.com, or do a search for "lcc", "gcc" or "mingwin", to name a few of the better known packages. I have no idea about free, VB-like systems, though it wouldn't surprise me if there are such things if you're willing to do some looking.



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[Tony's my name]

Jerry,

Thanks for your reply. Since you mentioned "signing up" for MSDN Universal, I assume it's decidedly NOT free. Actually, I neither had nor have any intentions of stealing commercial software; I'm looking for honest-to-goodness FREE software. I use a totally free compiler that I downloaded from delorie.com to compile C and C++ programs under Windows 9x (through DOS). But I haven't been able to find any free compilers for visual programming languages. Hence my post here. I hope I haven't brought your chagrin upon myself; I realize that my original post was somewhat vague.

So, here's a better question: is there such a thing as a free visual C++ compiler?

Thanks again,
Tony

ps - What I wouldn't give to live in CO... as a mountain biker who has visited there, I find the trails in southeastern PA so disappointing in comparison.

[Jerry Coffin]

No, I could only wish MSDN Universal was free (don't I).

As far as free, "Visual" languages go, probably your most obvious choice would be some of the free Java tools around. As far as a free compiler similar to VC++ or VB, I'm afraid I don't really know of either.

If you don't mind using LISP, you might want to download DrScheme from Rice University (http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT). It's a fairly slick setup, though it's really quite a bit different from VC++ or VB.


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