getting a new compiler....

hi, i really dislike vc++ express.

what one compiler do u guys suggest tome for windows

I was going to suggest VC++ 2005 express ... :D

im using it now, and when i get an important exception it ignores it :S and debugging is really hard when after each line it says no source is available :S

well i cant compare as ive only used borland .. BCB6 it annoyed me at first as it has quite alot of borland compliant syntax, such as the uise of AnsiString oppose to string .. however string will also compile naturally. good thing i foudn with ansistring is that you can add lots of them together to form a filepath for instance ... well hey, not alot, but my two cents worth :)

have a look here
http://www.borland.com/us/products/cbuilder/index.html

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Originally Posted by Mitsukai

im using it now, and when i get an important exception it ignores it :S and debugging is really hard when after each line it says no source is available :S

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I don't know exactly what you mean by VC++ ignoring important exceptions and I understand you have an aversion to anything non standard, but in the Win32 API there is some stuff that allows you to set the structure of exception handling such as SetUnhandledExceptionFilter.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...tionfilter.asp

Jason

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im using it now, and when i get an important exception it ignores it :S and debugging is really hard when after each line it says no source is available :S

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I doubt any C++ exceptions are being 'ignored'. How do you substantiate this claim?

Jeff

I thought that VC++ was one of the best available Windows compilers for debugging tools (and, while VC++ 6 was really bad at ISO-compliance, latter versions are good).
It comes with a lot of debugging tools, so I doubt you'll find better easily.

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and debugging is really hard when after each line it says no source is available :S

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I suspect that Visual studio is not the culprit. It's perhaps due to a misconfiguration of compiler flags or the layout of files in your project directory.

that is the problem i dont have visual studio .. i have vc++ express

http://www.comeaucomputing.com/ @ $50

If there are concerns with the express edition you can try the full version.

Dev C++ works perfect for me, and its free

i dont have any money. i need a job :(

CodeBlocks:
http://www.codeblocks.org/

Dev-C++
http://www.bloodshed.net

Both IDE's are set to use the MingW / gcc compiler underneath.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie

Interesting I didn't know about codeblocks. Has anyone used it and compared it to Dev-C++?

I've used CodeBlocks just briefly. I've used Dev-C++ quite a lot, however Dev-C++ hasn't been updated in quite a while now (which is the reason I am looking at CodeBlocks to compile my gcc-based libraries).

So far, I'm impressed with CodeBlocks, but I haven't really made it go through the full paces yet.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie

Nice, I'll have to try it then. I always had a lot of issues with Dev-C++ that I didn't like.