Help getting your software.

Help getting your software.

[CDT]

I'm sorry but I've never used your software, or been to your site before.

I have no experience with your structure.
I'm looking for a C C++ compiler for windows 2000Pro
I have no idea what to download or what I need.
Your ReadMe's had might as well not exist as they say nothing and 
don't give any help.

Please provide a help for us users who have no experience with Unix, 
the non standard standard that has more flavors than Baskin and 
Robbins. And any attempt at making a standard usually results with 
OpenVMS being the first if not the only one that is complient.

Re: Help getting your software.

[John Fine]

There are a few ports of gcc and related gnu software to Windows.  
Probably the one you want is Mingw
http://www.mingw.org/
Another possibility is Cygwin
http://www.cygwin.com/

CDT wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a C C++ compiler for windows 2000Pro
> I have no idea what to download or what I need.
> Your ReadMe's had might as well not exist as they say nothing and 
> don't give any help.
>

Re: Help getting your software.

[John Fine]

Sorry, I was confused.  I thought you wanted gcc for Windows.

I guess you really want the free version of Visual C++
http://www.microsoft.com/express/vc/

I'm not impressed with the documentation of that either.  But if you 
don't like that documentation, I'm not in any of the mailing lists or 
forums where you should complain about it.

Windows ports of Unix projects typically have poor documentation.  If 
there is decent documentation, it isn't easy to find from the support 
web site.

Asking for help might work.  Complaining is less likely to work.

CDT wrote:
> I've got that, So how does one use it? No info on that. Doesn't even 
> have any info on it.
>
> You might say you have 50K downloads but 49,990 have gotten the 
> package and can't figure out how to compile or link with it.
> To use an old expression
>
> *_Where's the Manual?
>
> _*You university Unix types need a dose of reality. Give info in FAQs 
> etc and help file on usage.
> Something for the dummies who aren't in some academic never never land.