Talk:Windows Programming/Programming Windows with OSS Tools

Cygwin
Added some Cygwin support. DevCpp would be nice too, though I am not sure how Windows are it is. It lacks a GUI design tool, though it has support for win32 and opengl, as well as SDL and allegro and many other programs. It uses addons for that purpose. Its latest features include code completion, which is a nice detail that other open source C++ compilers don't seem to have on Windows.

PS: Nice to see that this wikibook has progressed since the beginning of the year. I had been here before and noticed too many empty entries that have apparently been at least stubbified this time around. I have interest in the content, as well as providing some in-depth Cygwin details from my personal installation and a few years of using it for simple tasks and X. --64.131.175.112 09:56, 6 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I personally use Dev-C++ for my own work, so i really should have added a section about it in here. This book does still need alot of work, and I've been focusing alot of my attention on the Reverse Engineering book recently, because it is the current collaboration of the Month. Any help is certainly appreciated, however. --Whiteknight (talk) (projects) 17:49, 6 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't agree with the "arduous" set up of VC++ Express assertion ! I downloaded it last week along with the full Plateform SDK, installled them, and merged docmentation (you need to go to a special ms-help://.. URL in the MS document explorer to do that). It all took few minutes and worked the first time on a pretty large application I compiled. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/usingpsdk/.

Hello there, great book, I am still reading it. I belive the Tiny C Compiler is also a good choice for people looking for a simple command line compiler, I have already compiled a couple Windows C programs and it seem to work very well, perhaps it could be included if you agree. --Keylor.gonzalez (talk) 15:52, 28 October 2009 (UTC)