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

If you're interested in how large projects are organised, you could try downloading the source code for something like Apache httpd or PHP. These are both in C. On Linux/Mac you can compile them from the command-line using a few simple commands (see the documentation).