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Open Source Option

Posted By: Michael Petch
Date: Thursday, 24 February 2011, at 2:15 p.m.

In Response To: OT: C++ compiler needed for Vista (Jason Lee)

In my last message I gave the Microsoft answer. But of course you may be wondering why I didn't give an Open Source solution given my background. Well I wanted to split that up. If you are looking for a wide variety of different programming languages with basic Unix like command shell and the baility to write standalone windows apps that don;t rely on 3rd party libraries (Like Microsoft startup DLL's) then there are options here too:

http://www.mingw.org/

On the Ming site you can download a strip down Unix Bourne Shell (command line environment) called MSYS.

Ming's big brother if you are looking for POSIX compatibility and a wide variety of the command line tools can be found here:

http://www.cygwin.com/

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