[Geany-Users] Which C++ compiler for Windows 10?

[Matthew Brush]

On 2020-06-25 4:56 p.m., Matthew Brush wrote:
> On 2020-06-25 12:32 p.m., David Topham wrote:
>> The only error I get is when first invoking geany (in Win 10 Linux
>> subsystem)
>>
>> (geany:5406): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in 
>> module_path:
>> "pixmap",
>>
>> but it doesn't appear to cause problems; it isn't "fatal"...
>>
> 
> While you shouldn't get that warning because all the needed stuff should 
> be included in the installer, the only effect should be to make Geany 
> look ugly instead of fake-native-windows appearance.
> 
> As others mentioned you should be OK using just about any compiler. The 
> only issue I can think of is that if you don't use a GCC-style compiler 
> like GCC, Clang or (maybe?) ICC, it may not be able to parse the 
> diagnostic messages out-of-the box. If you were to use something like 
> MSVC++, you likely would have to customize the "error regular 
> expression" so it can properly parse the diagnostic messages.
> 
> Regards,
> Matthew Brush
> 

Sorry mixed up who I was replying to.

Regards,
Matthew Brush

>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 9:51 AM Gösta Ljungdahl <gosta.ljungdahl at foi.se>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Geany works fine with mingw32. I have not tried any other. I suppose it
>>> would also well with the various mingw-w64 compilers out there.
>>>
>>>
>>> But since win10 now has a linux subsystem I have a mind to try and 
>>> install
>>> Geany in Ubuntu or OpenSuse because under Linux you can take 
>>> advantage of
>>> the virtual terminal. You can install a win10 X-server and use that 
>>> for to
>>> display linux GUI programs. I suppose you could also take advantage 
>>> of the
>>> linux g++ compiler and use it to build linux executables or use it to
>>> cross-compile windows executables. My command line programs run just 
>>> fine
>>> in the Linux subsystem. Depends on what you want to use the compiler 
>>> for,
>>> of course.
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>>> There are several good C++ compilers for Windows 10. Which one works
>>> best with Geany?
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