Compiling and IDE problems....

[RustyNail]

Visual Studio 6.0 does not suit my needs...
Visual Studio Express does not work on my Win2K SP4 for some reason...
Dev-Cpp has recently got some nasty habits of not being able to compile anything with 'iostream' or any other library, reporting about 50 errors for it...
Code::Blocks (all nighty builds) have the same problem... using the Candidate version of MinGW....
*542* errors while compiling with C::B MinGW Here are a few...
(sorry for the n00bish question, just have no idea on what to do...)What should I do? I am at a complete loss of ideas...
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\iostream:44: bits/c++config.h: No such file or directory
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\iosfwd:46: bits/c++locale.h: No such file or directory
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\iosfwd:47: bits/c++io.h: No such file or directory
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\cctype:66: error: syntax error before "std"
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\cctype:67: error: syntax error before '{' token
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\bits\stringfwd.h:47: error: syntax error before '{' token
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\bits\stringfwd.h:60: error: syntax error before '<' token
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\cstddef:50: error: syntax error before "std"
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\cstddef:51: error: syntax error before '{' token
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\ctime:64: error: syntax error before "std"
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\ctime:65: error: syntax error before '{' token
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\cwchar:66: error: syntax error before '}' token
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\cwchar:70: error: syntax error before '{' token
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\bits\postypes.h:53: error: syntax error before '{' token
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\bits\postypes.h:80: error: syntax error before '<' token
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\bits\postypes.h:101: error: syntax error before ':' token
F:\ProgramFiles\MinGW\include\c++\3.4.4\bits\postypes.h:116: error: syntax error before "__off"
etc...

[hybrid]

Reinstall mingw. Probably a version clash due to updates.

[RustyNail]

Tried that... does not work....

[afecelis]

try codeblocks + MSVCtoolkit2003. Both free.
here's some good info on it:
http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?ti ... Blocks_IDE
and here's possibly the last DL link on earth to get the MSVC toolkit 2003:
http://xona.com/programs/VCToolkitSetup ... 07.06).zip

you can also check the codeblocks tutorial for Irrlicht:
http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/tut_codeblocks.html

It's really a great alternative and will work on Win2k.

EDITED:The dl link to the msvc toolkit doesn't paste fine. You gotta find it in the first link, after "download from Xona.com"

[RustyNail]

Thanks, I'll try it....
Argh... I really need to upgrade to Windows XP...
But when Vista comes out, i'm-a switchin' to Ubuntu!

[slang]

one word... "eclipse"