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Originally Posted by Overdrive80
You can use codeblocks or visual studio.
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Well, you have to be careful about this. Code::blocks is only a development environment, not a compiler. Visual Studio is both.
In addition, its not guaranteed that a project is going to be compatible with either without some work. A quick look at the paulstretch code looks like the win32 version was designed to be compiled for mingw32, under linux (the build script has explicit calls to wine in it).
This could be modified to attempt to build on something newer, say mingw-w64 (which would allow it to potentially be compiled as a 64-bit executable too), or another compiler. This is probably not a task for a new programmer, depending on the complexity of the code and if it uses any gcc dependent features (if you want it to run under another compiler).