From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "\"Zow\" Terry Brugger" To: "'Amy Wells'" , "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" Subject: RE: Help! Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 14:40:00 -0000 Message-id: <01BD3D01.194CD810.zow@mdbs.com> X-SW-Source: 1998-02/msg00572.html -----Original Message----- From: Amy Wells I have a Compaq Presario with Windows 95 and I got the Teach Yourself C++ in 24 hOurs. The thing is that I can't get it to start. somewhere it said I needed to open alltar but I couldn't find it on my CD Rom. I am new to this and would like some HELP please! Well, first of all, those "Teach yourself C/C++ in x time-units" don't work. I was an infamous hacker amongst the freshmen my first year at Purdue when I tried to learn C from one of those books. The levels of indirections when you start to get into deep pointer stuff are just too complicated to be explained without human interaction. I ended up taking freshmen programming my Sophomore year, and I ended up changing majors and now I crunch C/C++ code for a living. So my first recommendation is to find a knowledgeable friend or take a class at your local vo-tec. You're still going to need a compiler though. What exactly is it that you can't get to start? What is this CD-ROM and alltar that you refer to? Where does GNU-Win32 fit into your problems? If you want to use gcc from GNU-Win32 (which I would recommend: it's every bit as good as a commercial compiler and in fact, MS apparently used it as the basis for VC++ 1.0), download cdk.exe from www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32 . While it's downloading (it's 14MB, so it'll take a while), read the FAQ. You won't understand a lot of it, but it should answer a lot of your questions. That should get you rolling. I'm sure other people have other recomendations on what you could use (like the minimalist GNU-Win32), but I'm just recomending what I know. If after reading the FAQ you still have questions, we'd be happy to answer them. There are probably better venues for C++ questions: Yahoo! has a ton of C++ resources (including links to the C++ FAQs), I'm sure you can find something there. Amy Hope this helps! Terry - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".