Is there any free c/c++ compiler supporting "vfw"?

[jonny]

I've made some experiments with free borland c compiler 5.5.1, but seems to broke something in the code... is there any other free solution?

thanks

[llemor]

Try this http://www.bloodshed.net/ ;)

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Originally posted by llemor
Try this http://www.bloodshed.net/ ;)
That's the free IDE project called DEV-C++, just updated to 4.9.7.0 (very active project as I often can see in sf.net)

I guess you want pointing to MinGW: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw
It's a total and constant (in time) GCC port to Win32, as opposite to Cygwin it's not a "common place" for Unix (linux) and Win32 projects but it aims to generate pretty minimalist Win32 binaries strictly working with Windows API MFC and other native DLLs.
AFAIK, MinGW it's constant up to date free C++ dev suite for Win32, plus GCC is the veteran/powerful/complete compiler ;) (think linux)

...One negative point is that despite DEV-C++ is currently the most concrete IDE for MinGW it's still far to be a complete solution for easy develop like MS VC++.

Of course Bloodshed give one all-in-one package of Dev-C++ with MinGW 2.0 included.

[jonny]

Thanks for the suggestions... i'm going to download/test!

Cheers
jonny

[[Toff]]

I can't find any complete enough vfw.h for MinGW.
Any one has ever compiled some program using AVIFile under MinGW ?

[milan]

I attached vfw.h I'm using for compiling ffvfw using MinGW. XviD CVS contains similar file too. Or you can download Microsoft Platform SDK and copy'n'paste needed declarations.

[RB]

Originally posted by jonny
I've made some experiments with free borland c compiler 5.5.1, but seems to broke something in the code... is there any other free solution?


Try LCC-Win32: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lcc-win32/

I can only recommend it, it got me started with Win32 programming. The VfW headers and libs are there. It's ANSI C, but supports some of the "C++ features" such as references, declare variables anywhere in the function body and more.

[scmccarthy]

@jonny

I also highly recommend both MinGW32 and LCC-WIN32. I use the first one to complile gnu console apps. The second one is great for developing your own custom windows. It mixes gernerality with the ability to be very specific about how you want your gui to look.

But guess what? There is a free Microsoft commandline C++ compliler you get with the Device Development Kit. That is because systems programmers prefer commandline development environments to the Visual Studio. You'd have to create your own batch files pointing to the correct lib and include directories, but I think it is all there. How cool is that?

Stephen

[jonny]

A lot of choices!
I'm making some experiments, all i need is to create console applications for now.

>There is a free Microsoft commandline C++ compliler you get with the Device Development Kit

!!!
If it's not a huge download i'll try it.

thank you!
jonny

[scmccarthy]

Here's the vfw header from the WINDDK for XP. It might help you evaluate if it is what you need.

Stephen