Getting Started on Windows for C/C++ Beginners

This article gives step-by-step information from software installation to the completion of a Hello World program.

http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/download

Choose the 32bit (No -w64 suffix), bundled, sjlj version.

Install it with default options unless you know what you are doing.

You should get something like this in your CMD

C:\>gcc
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.

Otherwise, you should add appropriate PATH manually.

If you are not sure, download and install the version comes with GTK runtime.

#include <stdio.h>
 
int main( void )
{
    printf("Hello, World!\n");
    return 0;
}

#include <iostream>
 
int main( )
{
    std::cout << "Hello, World!\n" << std::endl;
    return 0;
}

• Click “New” in toolbar.
• Type above Hello World program according to your language (C or C++).
• Save the program with proper extension (Use .c for C programs, .cpp or .cxx for C++ programs)
• Click “Build” in toolbar. It should say “Compilation finished successfully.”, otherwise check your code.
• Click “Execute” in toolbar. It should popup a console window and you should see “Hello, World!” displayed.