Free or cheap Windows C++ compiler with GUI?

[Hollister Man]

I used to work in Turbo C++ when I was in high school.  I have managed to find the command line tools for Borland's Turbo C++ Windows API, but I am not really proficient in C++ anymore.  I never really got past object-oriented console programming (simple text games).  I'd like to start up again, maybe even learn how to write plugins for AGS.  At the very least, it would be cool to work in C++ again.

My question is, does anyone know where I can get a good compiler without paying an arm and three legs?  As I said, in High School the teacher gave us each an educational copy, but that was three computers ago and its long gone.

[Fuzzpilz]

I hear Dev-C++ is good.

[Ryam BaCo]

i'm using visual studio .net 2003 for such stuff, but...hmmm...wait!....a cheap not-piracy-c++-compiler can be found at www.borland.com...but....oh...you're writing something about borland-crap...hmmm...okay...dunno - i'm satisfied with my visual studio...sorry

[edmundito]

Maybe GCC, which is just a compiler, but I bet they make GUIs/IDEs for it. I dunno if you can make windows DLLs and whatnot, since I just use Visual Studio for it.

It kind of sucks that windows doesn't have text editors that highlight C/C++/programming language syntax and stuff. You could probably get windows ports for editors like Emacs or Vim, but they're not as good as using them directly on unix/windows. If you get onto that path, programming gets a lot faster... and simpler, too, specially if you're just programming command-line programs.

[LGM]

Emacs has a windows version

[Kweepa]

Dev-C++ is the closest thing I know to what you are probably looking for - but it's still not a patch on Visual Studio, which is a shame because Visual Studio is pretty shoddy.

[Mr Jake]

DEV C++ is Very good.. it makes sense to me and I was a complete n00b, now Im only 85% n00b! THANK YOU DEV C++