A free linux compiler?

Hello everyone,
I usually do all my programming with Bloodshed Dev-C++ on 32-bit windows vista but I also have a backup computer that runs on Ubuntu 8.10 linux. Is there any free compiler or interpreter out there for linux? Pref. something that can create windows executables. Nothing I program on that computer will be for commercial use... thanks

gcc mingw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...B.2B_compilers

gcc is the standard compiler collection. It probably comes with your distribution. Get mingw32 (apt-get mingw32) for a Windows cross-compiler for gcc. You can also use winelib to develop Linux applications using the Windows API; these are easier to debug and so on, and should then compile cleanly with mingw32.