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As a beginner,For doing C programs which is the best compiler? plzz gimme a reply...

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OP asked a common beginner question. Answers in this thread pointed at older commercial Microsoft tools and MinGW-based IDEs (see and ). Today the practical choice depends on the operating system and whether an IDE or a simple toolchain is wanted. For learning plain C and portability, use a modern, maintained compiler like GCC or Clang; on Windows the two friendly routes are a full IDE from Microsoft or a maintained MinGW-w64/GCC environment. Visual Studio Community is a fully featured, free IDE for individual learners; GCC remains the standard open-source compiler family. (visualstudio.microsoft.com)

On Windows: the IDE route gives an out-of-the-box debugger, templates and an easy installer; the toolchain route (MSYS2 / mingw-w64) gives a lightweight Unix-like package manager and up-to-date GCC builds. Another straightforward option is WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) to run native Linux GCC/Clang inside Windows. Lightweight editors such as Visual Studio Code work well with any of these toolchains. Code::Blocks is still available as a cross-platform IDE; Dev-C++ was popular historically but the original project stalled and modern forks exist — prefer actively maintained releases. (msys2.org)

Quick hands-on starting points and a tiny checklist:

# MSYS2 (open MSYS2 UCRT64) - install GCC
pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gcc

# compile a simple program
gcc hello.c -o hello

If using Visual Studio, install the "Desktop development with C++" workload. When you hit compile errors: enable warnings (-Wall -Wextra), check include paths, and confirm you are compiling a C file (use gcc -x c if needed). These steps get a beginner compiling and debugging quickly. (packages.msys2.org)

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VC++ 2005 Enterprise, but it will cost you about $2,000.00 :eek:

also, read thread

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Download DEV C++ or Code::Blocks which used MinGW compiler system

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