What C++ compiler do you use and which you think is the best?

**Zaccheus** · September 12th, 2010, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by laserlight

i suppose that the ide is responsible for integrating components used for development into a single environment. Some components are more closely integrated than others

Ha ha.

**Lindley** · September 12th, 2010, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Yeah, but even then it largely comes down to preference. XCode is by a wide margin the best IDE for me and Eclipse is by a wide margin the worst. But I'm sure other people would say otherwise. I actually prefer Instruments to Valgrind too. Although I use both, sometimes Instruments will show me something Valgrind doesn't and vice versa. Still, nothing on Windows compares to either one.

I tried Googling Instruments but, unsurprisingly, didn't come up with relevant results. Could you provide a link?

**ninja9578** · September 13th, 2010, 08:10 AM

Originally Posted by Lindley

I tried Googling Instruments but, unsurprisingly, didn't come up with relevant results. Could you provide a link?

Really? I find that very surprising. Go to /Developer/Applications

It comes with XCode.

http://theappleblog.com/2010/08/04/a...or-developers/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruments_(application)

**HighCommander4** · September 13th, 2010, 10:18 AM

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Yeah, but even then it largely comes down to preference. XCode is by a wide margin the best IDE for me and Eclipse is by a wide margin the worst. But I'm sure other people would say otherwise.

I will, gladly.

I use Eclipse CDT with gcc. Besides both of them (eclipse and gcc) being cross-platform, Eclipse CDT has an internal parser which parses your code on the fly and applies syntax highlighting. You can do some very cool things with the syntax highlighting, like color a method name differently if it's misspelt, or even if calling it violates const-correctness! This helps you catch a lot of mistakes before you even compile, thus saving you a lot of time. I've yet to see another IDE that can do that (To be fair, I've never tried Xcode so I can't say anything about that).

**Lindley** · September 13th, 2010, 10:24 AM

VS2010 does on-the-fly syntax highlighting, but I turned it off to increase responsiveness.

**Joeman** · September 13th, 2010, 11:39 AM

I thought syntax highlighting was just for looks

. When I had the trial of vs2010, syntax error highlighting was a pain. It took too long to figure out the syntax was right to begin with or I needed to compile the code for it to realize everything was okay. It was counter-productive

**Eri523** · October 6th, 2010, 10:12 PM

Sorry to bump that old thread, but I think it's the best place to ask...

A fellow developer of mine wants to learn C++. He is no noob, rather a generally experienced developer who just hasn't experience with this language. He showed me a book he wants to use, which I somehow could "approve". It's based on g++ and accompanied by a CD, but that's version 2.95.2. But the book at least covers the '98 standard.

I recommended to use a newer version of g++ together with a convenient IDE (which is nothing that's mentioned in the book). I didn't see any concrete suggestions for something like that here in that thread, and a Google search gave me many hits of which I'm not really sure how relevant they are.

Can anyone in here give me a link to download a recent version of g++ bundled with a convenient IDE?

This is for Windows.

That's not for me. Some of you might already have seen that I'm using VC++ and am more or less happy with it...

Any pointers?

TIA

**Joeman** · October 6th, 2010, 10:58 PM

http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/26 download codeblocks-10.05mingw-setup.exe

It comes with gcc/g++ 4.4.1 which isn't that old.

**Xupicor** · October 7th, 2010, 03:59 AM

On Windows, I actually prefer Nuwen MinGW "distro", which is frequently updated (GCC 4.5.1 at the moment, and includes a fresh Boost version). Then I install GDB from MinGW SourceForge page, plus dependencies (expat).
I like to work in NetBeans C/C++ IDE.

Compiling the code in VC++ too is always preferred, to get a nice, standard compliant code. As is forcing the compiler to work in -pedantic -ansi modes.

Also, I try to compile the code on Linux too, to make sure it's portable, as long, as I am not forced to program for one OS only.

Links:
http://nuwen.net/mingw.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ming...m/GDB/GDB-7.2/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ming...expat-2.0.1-1/
http://netbeans.org/

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