The main advantage of "all in one" packages like visual studio express is that it installs all 3 components at once. For me using gnu command line utilities (from msys) with qmake and visual studio on windows platform turned out to be the most efficient setup. The explanatory material is useful for both.
#MICROSOFT C COMPILER FOR WINDOWS 10 HOW TO#
This chapter briefly explains how to create a Windows extension module for Python using Microsoft Visual C++, and follows with more detailed background information on how it works. Building C and C++ Extensions on Windows. (jedit, visual studio, notepad++, far manager, midnight commander, vim, emacs).Īs you can see, there are many possible combinations. Building C and C++ Extensions on Windows Python 3.10.6 documentation. (gnu make, scons, cmake, qmake, msbuild, visual studio) (microsoft compiler, gcc, intel compiler, etc) To effictively develop you need 3 main components: There are others (openwatcom/borland c++ builder come to mind), but they are less "popular". Two main compilers available on windows platform are Microsoft Compiler (Visual Studio express) and MinGW+GCC. As far as I know all compilers are easy to use once you learned how to use decent build system and have toolchain running.
If you don't know where to start, download and install visual studio express from microsoft's website.ĭoes anyone know of a c/c++ compiler that is easily usable with windows?ĭefine "easy".