Dev-C++ Reviews

Simply the best

The best :D

Great IDE

Great compiler IDE for beginners, I hope the addition of UTF-8 support

Good teaching tool for introductory C programming.

Great IDE,but we expect dark GUI and C++ 14 support.

Simple and fast. It has some issues with edge cases, but as those are reported they continue to be fixed. Given the choice between Visual Studio and this, I'd choose this any day.

If I use Windows - I use Dev-C++ to write small programs, POC, etc..

Nice update working great!

Good, simple interface...

Very Good!!

small and simple.

Mostly fantastic - I use it to build my own projects with MinGW for Windows.

Very happy to use Devcpp again.

While we are grateful that the excellent Dev-C++ IDE has continued its existence throughout this project and it seems very promising; sadly this IDE is so full of bugs that it is UNUSABLE. Unfortunately this IDE is useless in production code and even for testing environments because you are unable to compile most of the time. You run into countless denial permissions when trying to rebuild or clean a project, often you have to compile a few times before the compiler actually works on compiling flawless code that compiles in other IDE's and in MinGW or gcc g++ (GNU/Linux). I would be glad to re-use this IDE (since it is light, well designed, and very flexible) if these compilation/rebuilding bugs were fixed. For the time being I recommend: Visual C++ Express, Code::Blocks, Eclipse CDT, or Netbeans.

This project helped me a lot when I needed to write something on C++ quickly. The fact that it lives is inspiring!

The size of the project has increased dramatically. Dev C++ 5.5.3 (available from PortableFreeware.com) took 171 MB (including minGW). Eclipse CDT takes 219 MB (excluding minGW - I set the Eclipse CDT path to the Dev C++ 5.5.3 minGW). Dev C++ 5.6.2 takes 618 MB. Some of the explosion is due to including legacy minGW as well as minGW-32. However, in comparing some of the 5.5.3 to 5.6.2 files with the same name, they have grown by a factor of 8. I certainly give 5.6.2 Five stars for simplifying the installation process (which includes the tool chain). It would be nice to know if some of the growth in some of the files is merited or perhaps somebody missed an optimize switch in the compile/build.

Just excellent! Up-to-date and above all it's portable.

You're doing an amazing job by maintaing this. All C/C++ students/programmers are leveraging this! Big thanks!

This is a great C++ IDE for beginners.

good ide for basic and/or educational projects, simple to use, freeware and under active development and improvement.

wohh. so nice IDE, the updates dramastically accelerate. my last Dev-C++ vrsion is 5.5.5 better that not late though

A really good project. First, it provides a portable version of C++ IDE. Second, I can start learning and developing OpenGL programs instantly.

It looks really good.Though I'm just getting started I do not really know much, but does it install a compiler along with it?

I'm running into a few unusual problems loading up development software onto it. running off Windows 8.1, which I think could be causing problems. When I load a regular "hello world" test program off DevCPP, it'll compile fine, but when running the program the console window freezes and a "ConsolePauser.exe has stopped working" error message pops up. I checked around a bit online to see what the issue might be but support posts have no information related to the ConsolePauser crashing and it sounds like the version I downloaded is the correct one for Windows 8, so I'm kind of at a loss here. Is there something else I need to configure? Maybe permissions? What am I doing wrong here?