C++

[Complitric]

I am taking a WINDOWS C++ class. I am going to be needing something to compile
and test my code. I have VMware but would rather not do it that way. Does anyone know
of perhaps an online compiler? Something like that so that from Linux I can write and test
my stuff? Any suggestions are welcome, thanks.

[waltaja]

i always used the one that came with my Fedora 4. after writing my code i'd type at the command line, g++ programname.cpp -o programname

and that seemed to work. i also used Anjuta IDE for a bit and it seemed to work alright as well

[a thing]

Haha! Silly proprietary OS users. Free operating systems usually come with a compiler. Enter gcc (or g++; gcc will automatically use g++ if you compile C++) SOURCE-FILE -o EXECUTABLE-NAME. If you're writing m$ visual C++ or something, that's a different story. Use a standard (ANSI C++) instead.

[benjamin20]

so microsoft doesnt follow the standards for there compiler either?

[Roxoff]

Depends what you mean by standards. I find the VisStudio IDE to be an extremely useful tool. And you can write ANSI standard C++ in it; it just requires a little self-control.

[sarumont]

so microsoft doesnt follow the standards for there compiler either?

They don't promote standards compliant code.

As has been said beforehand, if you keep yourself to ANSI standard C++, then you'll be able to compile/run it on Linux using gcc. I had a data structures course that was taught using C++ and the STL. Much of the code in the book only worked on MS VS (unless I edited it ). If you have to use libraries for the course, you may want to find/build a box with gcc 2.95.3...I had much luck with this and the unedited libraries that came with the book (as they were standards compliant back in the days of 2.95.3...not now).

I'll stop rambling now...hope this helps.

[Complitric]

The main reason I say I would like something like an online compiler,
is because I actually want more of a way to check my code to see that
it will compiler in m$ visual c++. I know that for the most part stuff in
this class will work cross-platform but there are a few headers missing
from the Linux compilers.