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age13kid

01-12-2005, 11:42 PM

i was wandering how people make .exe files do they use software editors or do they use notepad? can someon tell me how?

mkda

01-12-2005, 11:48 PM

There are different programming editors that do that. One popular editor is called Visual C. When you write code, you then compile it. The compiled version is the actual .exe file.

age13kid

01-12-2005, 11:51 PM

any links to download it or do u have to pay?

mkda

01-13-2005, 12:06 AM

Visual c is very professional and you have to pay for it (legally). I got it through my school for free (or at least it seems that way - they take it from my tuition money).

You could get a free editor called Dev C (it has its own open-source compiler) if you're interested in C/C++ programming.

What you could also do is write code in notepad, and download borland's free compiler. Then you can compile it that way too.

age13kid

01-13-2005, 12:17 AM

uhh can you please provide a link for the free thing?

mkda

01-13-2005, 12:26 AM

Google it ;)

see (its the first link of course) ...

http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Dev%20C

PeOfEo

01-13-2005, 05:44 AM

I used jcreator for java and you could compile the java into an exe with that. Also you can compile c++ and vb into exes if you are running visual studior. You can compile vb.net and other things into .dlls using some of the applications within the .net framework too.

mkda

01-13-2005, 12:16 PM

Originally posted by PeOfEo
I used jcreator for java and you could compile the java into an exe with that. How would you do that?

I have jCreator too (pro actually), but didn't find the option to compile into an exe :confused:

PeOfEo

01-15-2005, 01:16 PM

I can remmeber doing it with jcreator back when i was in ap comp sci (I do not do much w/ java any more since I am not in comp sci anymore). But I remember it was undesireable. Like I would compile it and execute the exe but it would keep an extra prompt that would say like starting and the done, then if you close that prompt the other prompt (or gui) would close. So even if you do find where it lets you do it (because I believe there was an option that was like compile project tor compile file), you should probably use a third party compiler.