MinGW is one of the Windows implementations of GCC. You can get MinGW at http://mingw.sf.net If you are new to it, you may get confused by its installation, so you can try Dev-Cpp (http://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/), which uses MinGW and can be installed with just a few mouse clicks. On 8/21/07, Shawn Cyberpunk <samika@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When i asked someone about the best c compiler to use, he advised me to > look at gcc. > The problem is that i am a windows user and novice programmer and he is > a die-hard linux fan. > So he can't answer me when i ask him if gcc is unix implemented: e.g. if > there are some unix components in it incompatible with windows and as a > result need some kind of nix emulation OR if gcc is a fully > os-independant universal C compiler(and if yes, how do i get unemulated > win binaries?). > So could you answer this question? > > >