anyone know where i can get a complete list of commands for c++? i still havent given up trying to teach myself, but my friend gave me a list, and when i compiled it and tried to run it, i got: "compatibility error: error executing command line 216" box

"Commands" as in preprocessor directives, C++ keywords, functions/methods in the STL, or what?

Hell, just go to cplusplus.com and look it up.

-- Griffinhart

http://learncpp.com

thanks. and does anyone know where i can get an easier to use compiler than openwatcom? ever since i lost my computer, i"ve been trying to figure out which exe file to open. it comes with, like, 100, and no readme.

Get a shell account on a linux box and use gcc on that.

Or get Cygwin, which is what I use for nearly all of my compiling. (The only code I've compiled in MSVS were builds of my team's game - because they're madly in love with Visual Studio's UI and such like. Personally, I prefer Crimson Editor.)

-- Griffinhart

Good gravy, that must hurt.

thnks pplz. i'm unable to learn becuz of all the stupid exe files. y dont they compress it all into like a directory with buttons clearly labling each item? anyways, thx

Not really? I actually really like GCC? (Also I haven't compiled anything except class assignments, and since the teacher for my CS170 class explicitly told us to grab Cygwin/GCC and compile our homeworks with it (as well as Borland and MS's command line compiler), it's not that hard?)

--Griffinhart

I think he's referring to the fact that you're using cygwin.

Oh, that? Yeah, that's annoying as fuck all, especially when it turned out that Cygwin's version of Doxygen is/was helluva out-of-date. Messed up several of my assignments.

-- Griffinhart

Sounds like what you need is Microsoft BOB!

Yes, I was referring to Cygwin. GCC is alright. But good lord, Cygwin's fork() emulation incurs such a tremendous performance penalty, even on the simplest things (like autoconf configure scripts). MinGW is better, but not by much.

I find myself using Linux and Mac OS X almost exclusively these days. Windows feels pretty foreign now. When I joined the Onlink project, I was using Windows exclusively, so I've pretty much done a 180 as far as my development environment is concerned.

The more I use Ubuntu, the more software I find that replaces Windows software, like video editing and such. Honestly, I have Windows on my laptop next to me only to test web pages in Internet Explorer.

hey, i've got a friend teaching me c. would that help?