Best C++ Compiler

[rubenwardy]

I am using VC++ 2010 at the moment, but is there a free compiler that exports for mac/linux?

[kazymjir]

http://gcc.gnu.org/

[CuteAlien]

The answer is gcc. But I'm not 100% certain about the question as a compiler doesn't export but compile. There's 2 things - compiling on a platform or compiling for another target platform. The first one is usually the easier thing - like working on Windows and compiling for Windows or working on Linux and compiling for Linux. Gcc also supports targeting another platform than the one you work on, but it's more complicated and nothing I would recommend for a beginner.

[rubenwardy]

i meant compile, sorry

[kazymjir]

If you was using VC++ before, try use NetBeans IDE: http://netbeans.org/downloads/index.html .
It works on Windows/Linux/MacOS platforms and uses GCC, you will be able to compile code from IDE window - same like in VC++.

[REDDemon]

crosscompiling is very hard I agree. I tried few times compiling also for linux from windows and don't succeded

[hendu]

If you want to compile -for- linux -from- windows I have to question your sanity...

[REDDemon]

http://metamod-p.sourceforge.net/cross- ... linux.html

anyway i abandoned the idea lot of time ago. Is probably easier install Linux and do all from Linux partition

[hendu]

I'm not saying it can't be done. Merely that it's not really useful from any point of view.

[REDDemon]

and that's why I never tried that again

[hybrid]

Well, the Android SDK and lots of other tool suites do provide a way to cross compile even from Windows. But still it's often much easier to use a native environment. For OSX I doubt that there is any chance besides working on a Mac.

[REDDemon]

does android have a native environment?

Some times ago goole announced a unified game platform.. maybe they will have too also online-compiling capabilities

[hybrid]

Yes of course, you can compile on andoroid systems. But I'd even count all other Linux systems in, which have a largely similar system layout and provide an environment which fits better to the compiler suite.

[REDDemon]

Very nice, I'm tempted about using Irrlicht API + my rendering Engine core (openGL ES) and make Irrlicht becomes a Lightweight and Fast engine for Android in C++/plus Java wrapper.. better I stays with feet on ground else I'll do nothing more then nothing XD

[Cube_]

If you want to compile -for- linux -from- windows I have to question your sanity...

This, the sanest thing I have heard this week.