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I would suggest the nightly builds of Code::Blocks at
http://www.codeblocks.org/nightly/

Tim S

old user wrote:

> Hello:
>   I have some basic questions.I want to learn C language. Mingw is installed in my computer.
>    
>   But how can I begin?
>    
>   For example, I want to output "Hello", I know the code.
>    
>    
>   Should I install some other software(Cygwin,...)?
>   How to edit and compile the c. file?
>    
>   Thank you very much for your help!
>    
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On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:53:41 -0800 (PST)
old user <roomwanted11@...> wrote:

> Hello:
>   I have some basic questions.I want to learn C language. Mingw is
> installed in my computer. 
>   But how can I begin?
>    
>   For example, I want to output "Hello", I know the code.
>    
>    
>   Should I install some other software(Cygwin,...)?
>   How to edit and compile the c. file?
>    
>   Thank you very much for your help!
>    
>   A new friend

Hi,

For beginning i suggest downloading this ide:
http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/devcpp.html

Regards,
Darek

On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:21:34PM +0000, Tim Stahlhut wrote:
> I would suggest the nightly builds of Code::Blocks at
> http://www.codeblocks.org/nightly/

Just curious, but are there vi/vim bindings for Code::Blocks?

Ed

I have no idea if there is  vi/vim bindings for Code::Blocks.

I don't use vim so I have no idea if the keybinder plugin will do what
you want; I also don't use the keybinder plugin. But, keybinder plugin
is supposed to allow the user to customize the keyboard short-cuts as
the user wants.

Tim S

Ed S. Peschko wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:21:34PM +0000, Tim Stahlhut wrote:
>> I would suggest the nightly builds of Code::Blocks at
>> http://www.codeblocks.org/nightly/
>
> Just curious, but are there vi/vim bindings for Code::Blocks?
>
> Ed
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On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 11:53 -0800, old user wrote:

> But how can I begin?

I'd suggest installing msys as well.

Start with a text editor.  Any text editor will do.  You don't need an
IDE really.
 
> For example, I want to output "Hello", I know the code.

Good.  lets assume you named it hello.c. Put the file in your msys home
directory, start a msys shell and type "gcc -o hello hello.c" - without
the quotes and then "./hello" - again without the quotes.

The first command compiles your c code and the second runs the
executable.

You can write a make file to allow easier rebuilding of your code.

JS.

old user <roomwanted11@...> writes:

> Hello:
>   I have some basic questions.I want to learn C language. Mingw is installed in my computer.
>    
>   But how can I begin?
>    
>   For example, I want to output "Hello", I know the code.
>    
>    
>   Should I install some other software(Cygwin,...)?
>   How to edit and compile the c. file?
>    
>   Thank you very much for your help!
>    
>   A new friend
>    

To write C code you need a text editor and a compiler.

The text editor may be notepad, or something fancy like emacs (which I
have been using for the past 20 years).

When your code editor get really fancy, it's called an IDE (Integrated
Development Environment). This will allow you to do things like call
the compiler from a menu entry, and other fancy things.

So pick an editor to edit text.

Then use a compiler to compile it. gcc is free, and very good and
comes with MinGW. So use that. Do a "man gcc" to see all the things
you can do with it.

Good luck!

Ed