A friend of mine that has a fair amount of C programming experience and I, who has no experience in programming in C, are looking for a common compiler on which he can program and I can learn to program in C (and all variations, C++ etc.) I am familiar with the Microsoft Visual methods of programming in various languages and applications. Primarily I would like to learn and use the C compiler/GUI on Windows, but I would like to think that what I learn can carry over to the Linux box as well, should I decide to program in Linux. From what I understand, GCC and its various libraries are available for Windows. Neither of us has ever worked with GCC and know nothing about it. Below are several questions. Thank you all in advance for your patience and answers. >From where do I download GCC for Windows in a usable format? I followed the GCC website but got lost somewhere. I think I found it somewhere in .HZ format but I have no way to unzip it. Does GCC or any other freely licensed version have a GUI interface such as MS Visual C? Is GCC a good compiler on which to learn C? What all do I need to download and install to have a complete and usable compiler? What don't I know to ask? Thank you, Buck
