[andrewas]

I use DJGPP - its the MSDOS port of GCC, which is one of the best UNIX c/c++ compiler. Thats best as in free, but its not bad in terms of performance either.

Go to the zip picker on this site, pretty self explanatory. Installation is a breeze - second time around. First time is a pain, so feel free to mail/MSN me if you have any trouble.

Also there are a few glitches inthe latest version - with the c++ library (gcc standards change, nothing to do with the dos portion), you have to add stdlibcxx and libm explicitly since GCC 3.0.0.

And theres a subtle one in the optional allegro library (And I cant remember how to fix that one, but I can probly look it out if im not busy). You only need allegro if you want to do game-like things like draw graphics, play music and the like. You have to edit one of the includes.

And that about covers the basic pitfalls with DJGPP. At leas the undocumented ones. Have fun.