OK, so does anybody know of a good tree C++ compiler for Windows?

I mistakenly thought VisualStudio Express was free, but in fact after X 
days it stops working and demands a license key.

I suppose there's always GCC - if I install a damned Unix emulator. >_<

I think Watcom used to make a C compiler...

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Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> OK, so does anybody know of a good tree C++ compiler for Windows?

> I mistakenly thought VisualStudio Express was free, but in fact after X 
> days it stops working and demands a license key.

  Then get the license key. It's free.

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Le 15/04/2012 12:26, Warp nous fit lire :
> Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> OK, so does anybody know of a good tree C++ compiler for Windows?
> 
>> I mistakenly thought VisualStudio Express was free, but in fact after X 
>> days it stops working and demands a license key.
> 
>   Then get the license key. It's free.
> 
I second that.

The license for MSVC 10 (or whatever) is free. And they are not even
trying to spam you with lot of email (I know, I had such key)

The real sickness of MSVC is the C compiler: K&R only. C++ is ok.

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>>> I mistakenly thought VisualStudio Express was free, but in fact after X
>>> days it stops working and demands a license key.
>>
>>    Then get the license key. It's free.
>>
> I second that.
>
> The license for MSVC 10 (or whatever) is free. And they are not even
> trying to spam you with lot of email (I know, I had such key)

I third that.

Had the C++ and C# express versions installed on all my machines for 
ages now (and I think I needed to register for a new key each time I 
installed, it took some trivial amount of time to get the key and enter 
it, otherwise I would have remembered).

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>> I mistakenly thought VisualStudio Express was free, but in fact after X
>> days it stops working and demands a license key.
>
>    Then get the license key. It's free.

As soon as I click the link, it wants me to "log in". Damned if I'm 
going to jump through that many hoops just to use something that's 
/supposed/ to be freely usable. :-P

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>>> I mistakenly thought VisualStudio Express was free, but in fact after X
>>> days it stops working and demands a license key.
>>
>> Then get the license key. It's free.
>
> As soon as I click the link, it wants me to "log in". Damned if I'm
> going to jump through that many hoops just to use something that's
> /supposed/ to be freely usable. :-P

So the value of having Visual Studio Express is less than one minute of 
your time?  Your time must be *really* expensive :-)

Personally (and I'm sure I'm not alone) I would happily have paid up to 

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> I mistakenly thought VisualStudio Express was free, but in fact after X
> >> days it stops working and demands a license key.
> >
> >    Then get the license key. It's free.

> As soon as I click the link, it wants me to "log in". Damned if I'm 
> going to jump through that many hoops just to use something that's 
> /supposed/ to be freely usable. :-P

  You can complain about the "difficulty" of registering it and try to
use something else, or you could simply spend a few minutes registering.
You only have to do it once.

  (Nevertheless, do you wonder anymore why so many developers prefer Linux?)

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On 16/04/2012 01:05 PM, scott wrote:

> Personally (and I'm sure I'm not alone) I would happily have paid up to


Damn. You must have A LOT of money. ;-)

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>    You can complain about the "difficulty" of registering it and try to
> use something else, or you could simply spend a few minutes registering.
> You only have to do it once.

And by "once" I presume you mean "every single time you want to install 
this program".

>    (Nevertheless, do you wonder anymore why so many developers prefer Linux?)

Well, Visual Studio does work nicer than KDevelop; I'll say that for it.

But yeah, Unix was always intended to be a platform for software 
developers and similar experts.

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>> Personally (and I'm sure I'm not alone) I would happily have paid up to

>
> Damn. You must have A LOT of money. ;-)

No, I just used it a lot over the last few years...

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