Compling WOC with the GNU Compiler Collection (gcc/g++)
Download the WocGPPSkeleton project
files (3KB) in compressed ZIP format.Not everyone owns a recent version of Microsoft® Visual C++®, and to yet others it is not the compiler of choice. You don't need to spend money on a compiler to compile WOC; it will compile and link with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) which is available free of charge from the GNU Project website. GCC is a C/C++/Objective C/Fortran compiler in a single executable but it has preferred methods of invocation - for instance gcc is the best command to compile C programs, and g++ to compile C++. You can run GCC on Cygwin - a UNIX environment for Windows - which is also free of charge.
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g++ is a command-line tool. If you compile WOC from within Cygwin's bash shell then you can just run the build.sh shell script. It's also possible to rename build.sh as build.bat and run it from the NT Command Prompt. You'll need the WOC header and implementation files and you should place the /woc/ folder as a sibling of the unzipped /WocGPPSkeleton folder before running the build script. Once you've built and run the WocSkeleton sample you may feel like trying some of the other samples or even your own WOC applications.
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