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

Of course! There are a bunch of C compilers available for Windows, a few one to get you going:

• Visual Studio has an express edition which is free and comes with a compiler
• MinGW is the Gnu C Compiler ready-to-run for windows
• There are plenty of others, but the ones above should be .. enough for now

As for a text editor, you might want to choose one that comes with C-syntax highlighting, like vi, Emacs or some other text editor. Mastering an editor is by the way really useful, regardless of what your language is.