> Charles Rogers wrote:
>> I need to find a good C compiler, not necessarily a freebe.
>> It would need to run on Win-XP.  Any suggestions would
>> be appreciated.
>
> I've always used the Microsoft compiler on Windows.  As much as people 
> like
> to malign Microsoft their compiler is very solid.  I used to get the
> subscription, meaning I'd automatically get updates for a flat yearly fee.
> They stopped doing that in the late 1990s, and I've been using that last
> version ever since.  If I remember right, that is version 6.0. 
> (Cancelling
> the subscription was a dumb move.  Maybe there wasn't really much changing
> from one version to the next, but most people wouldn't know nor care.  It
> was easy to just buy the subscription and be done with it, at a tiny
> fraction of the cost of a engineer.  It was also a single approval, 
> whereas
> buying upgrades individually requires separate approvals, justification 
> why
> you really need it, etc.  Duh.)
>
> I hear they now give some sort of compiler away for free, but that may be
> just for .net stuff.  Dig around on the Microsoft site.

Olin,

Be aware that MSVC 6.0 is not supported/doesn't work right in Vista and 
later versions of Windows.
The upgrade is rather painless, and you will probably find the free version 
will meet your needs.

-- Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

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