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

I don't know what you mean. You want to write C programs in a text editor an then, compile?? Ofcourse, you CAN do that:

1- Write a C code
2- Get a compiler such as gcc (there is a windows version)
3- Compile it
4- Run it from console

But, I am not sure if that is what you want to know.