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

You can compile programs for Windows (if that's what he meant) from the command line using all the available tools in the Windows SDK (formerly called the Platform SDK, I believe) which is free to download from Microsoft. I think it has all the same tools Visual Studio has if not most of them.