I am taking a c++ where we are compiling our programs using visual c++. What I was wondering is there some way I can compile windows apps without the microsoft product? I installed cygwin on my pc thinking that would work and it may but there are no man pages unless I did something wrong. Or even better is there an app I can install on my RH machine that I can use.

This whole kernel/compiling/header thing is very confusing to me but I want to learn!

I appreciate any help

http://rooster.stanford.edu/~ben/linux/crosshowto.php <---check this out hope it helps or at least puts you in the right direction

As long as you don't write programs in windows that need windows libraries, you can compile c++ on GNU with g++.

I do not know if I am doing something wrong or not but I keep getting error messages when I tried g++ or 1386...gcc. They appear to be syntax errors but it compiled fine with the visual c++. Does this mean I am doing something wrong or do I need to try and fix the code for use with a differend compiler?

You might be using libraries g++ doesn't have, can you post the source?

Thanks for the help. Don't laugh at my litte program, I am just learning. But anyway this thing did fine when I compiled it withe microsoft visual c++.

Thanks

#include <iostream.h>



char target1;
int target2;
short int target3;
long int target4;
unsigned int target5;
float target6;
double target7;
long double target8;

void main(void)
{

cout << "\nBytes of storage used by a character: "
<< sizeof(target1);

cout << "\nBytes of storage used by an integer: "
<< sizeof(target2);

cout << "\nBytes of storage used by a short integer: "
<< sizeof(target3);

cout << "\nBytes of storage used by a long integer: "
<< sizeof(target4);

cout << "\nBytes of storage used by an unsigned integer: "
<< sizeof(target5);

cout << "\nBytes of storage used by a float: "
<< sizeof(target6);

cout << "\nBytes of storage used by a double: "
<< sizeof(target7);

cout << "\nBytes of storage used by a long double: "
<< sizeof(target8) << '\n';
}

First: main() really needs to return an integer so change this line: void main(void) into int main()

Second: compiles fine on my computer, maybe it's time to check how you actually compile the source.

if it's called test.c, do this: g++ -o test test.c
and if it's still not working, post the error output.