hello there. i've installed mingw compiler and im wondering how i would go about setting up notepad++ to compile my c/c++ code?. How do i do this?

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I assume that the g++ command is in your PATH and that your environment variables are set correctly.

Then follow these steps:

• Create a simple batch file called compile.bat which contains the following:
  
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  g++ -o %1 %2
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  g++ -o %1 %2 PAUSE
• Save it in the same directory as your C++ source file.
  
• In Notepad++, you open the Plugins menu > NppExec > Follow $(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)
  (or you just press F5), a little dialog pops up, click the ... button and browse to the directory where your source file (and thus your batchfile) is in, select the batchfile (compile.bat) and click on Open, the path to your batchfile is now added to that textbox, now you have to put quotes (") around it, a little example:
  
  Let's say that the path to your batch file is: C:\compile.bat , then after putting quotes around it it becomes "C:\compile.bat" , after that you type the name you want to give to your executable file, for instance myprogram.exe, and thereafter (seperate those two with a space) you type the name of your C++ source file, for example: mysrc.cpp, the whole line would then be:
  
• "C:\compile.bat" myprogram.exe mysrc.cpp

Hope this helps

Please don't mind reading my previous post, just read this article:
http://notepad-plus.wiki.sourceforge...Compiler+Guide

Why would you want to do that? Just use Code::Blocks and you have it done, and probably much better too. And Code::Blocks contains a debugger, which Notepad++ does not.

hmm...i was hoping to just edit text files without getting into major IDE's.

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