How to develop C programmes without an IDE in Windows?

Question

I want to have a deeper understanding of how C programmes are run.

But IDEs stops us from doing that.

So is it possible that I manually set up the environment an

Answer 1

As others have said, install MinGW (I'm assuming you are using Windows) and put its bin directory on your path. Open a command line windows, and create a file with a text editor, such as notepad - call it foo.c:

#include 
int main() {
  printf( "hello world\n" );
  return 0;
}

Then, use the gcc compiler to compile it, creating an executable called foo.exe:

> gcc foo.c -o foo.exe

lastly, run foo.exe from the command line:

> foo.exe
hello world