Install and Configuring Dev-C++ IDE
In this practical tutorial, you will learn how to “Install and Configure Dev-C++ IDE (Integrated Development Environment)” on Windows . Dev-C++ is a fully-featured IDE for C/C++ programming languages. It uses the Mingw port of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) as its compiler. Dev-C++ can also be used in combination with Cygwin or any other GCC-based compiler.
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Install and Configure Dev-C++ IDE
To Install and Configure Dev-C++ IDE on Windows operating system, follow the following steps.
- Type the following URL in the address bar to download “Bloodshed Dev-C++” https://www.bloodshed.net/
- Once downloading completes, go to the location where the Dev-C++ executable (.exe) file has been downloaded.
- Double click or right-click the .exe file and then choose the “Open” option to start installing it.
- The installer will promote choosing a language. Select “English” and click on “OK”
- Click on the “I agree” when the license agreement screen appears.
- Click on the “Next” button.
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- Click “Yes” so that every user can use it. If you don’t want any other Windows user to use this, then click “No”.
- Now, Dev C++ is installed successfully. Select “Run Dev C++” to run it now and click on the “Finish” button, as shown in the figure below.
- On the first run, Dev-C++ will bring “Dev-C++ first time configuration” windows.
- Select “English” as your language and “New Look” from the theme drop-down menu. Click on the “Next” button.
- In the next screen, choose “Yes” to enable the header file reading and code completion features, and then click on the “Next” button. You may skip this feature by choosing “No”.
- In the next screen, click on the “Next” button and finally click on the “OK” button to finish the configuration of the Dev-C++.
Conclusion
To conclude, in this tutorial we have learnt how to install and configure Dev-C++ on Windows operating system. Dev-C++ is a friendly and fully-featured Integrated Development Environment for C and C++ programming languages. It comes with Mingw port of GCC compiler having support for other compilers such as Cygwin or another GCC-based compiler.
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