What's the script for compiling and running C/C++ in Notepad++ 7.6.3

Abdelrahiman Soliman

What’s the script in NPP_EXEC for compiling and running C/C++ in Notepad++ 7.6.3.

Alan Kilborn

That greatly depends upon which C/C++ toolset you are using.

dinkumoil

Have a look at my Script Collection code repository under NppExec Scripts -> Compile_&_Run.

There I use Tiny C Compiler for compiling C programs. You have to adapt my script to the toolset you actually use for C/C++ development. Maybe you want to shorten it as well.

Abdelrahiman Soliman

@Alan-Kilborn

Whats the toolset? I am using Cygwin 64 bit version 3.0.4

Ekopalypse

@Abdelrahiman-Soliman

On windows normally you use Visual C++ compiler toolset but cygwin comes with gcc bundled as far as I know. There are other like mentioned by @dinkumoil, tcc or clang or …
Each toolset requires it own set of parameters etc… to compile and link different projects.

Alan Kilborn

@Abdelrahiman-Soliman

So you need to know what the following looks like for your situation:

command line to compile a file
command line to link project together
name of resulting exe from successful link

Then you can put all this together using @dinkumoil 's example NppExec script, for your specific use case

Make sense?

Abdelrahiman Soliman

@Alan-Kilborn
I am not sure if I understood. Very new to programming. How do I find those three steps? And when I find the three steps what script do I choose from @dinkumoil’s list of scripts, there are about 200 different scripts.

Alan Kilborn

@Abdelrahiman-Soliman

So we can’t teach you programming here or what “compiling”, “linking”, etc means here. Because this area is about Notepad++. You need to go off and figure those things out. Then come back here and we can tell you more exactly how to do your stuff under Notepad++ control.

But once you figure your end out, and realize that @dinkumoil already told you what area of the script to look at, it is all easy so you may not need more from us here.

Abdelrahiman Soliman

@Alan-Kilborn

Thanks for the preceding helping effort.