What's the script for compiling and running C/C++ in Notepad++ 7.6.3
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What’s the script in NPP_EXEC for compiling and running C/C++ in Notepad++ 7.6.3.
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That greatly depends upon which C/C++ toolset you are using.
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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.
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Whats the toolset? I am using Cygwin 64 bit version 3.0.4
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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. -
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?
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@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. -
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.
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Thanks for the preceding helping effort.