Recommendations for compiling on 64-bit Windows 10 Home

[HugoVirtuoso]

[I posted this separately from the webserver thread to avoid this getting lost]

In the future, I'll want to try compiling ToME 2.3.11-ah (and maybe other variants) on Windows 10 Home 64-bit. AH already said any recent GCC or Clang would work. But, I want to know what Windows 64-bit compiler(s) you guys actually use.

[EpicMan]

I use Visual Studio (2008/2012/2015) because I have an MSDN license with work. Visual Studio 2008 appears to be a free download from Microsoft, and very little work has been put in the C/C++ compiler so it should work just as well.

There are some quirks compiling *bands in visual studio (like projects defaulting to the Multi-byte character set and screwing up the display before you turn character set to "Not set", and needing to include winmm.lib to enable sound). I like it's debugger though.

But I am at best an amateur programmer.

[AnonymousHero]

I'm not sure any MS C++ compiler is capable enough to compile ToME-ah, FWIW. Anything before 2015 or so certainly isn't since I'm relying on C++14 features.

[EpicMan]

I'm not sure any MS C++ compiler is capable enough to compile ToME-ah, FWIW. Anything before 2015 or so certainly isn't since I'm relying on C++14 features.

According to Wikipedia:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 also has implemented "almost all" C++14 features.

That means any free version of VS won't work. And the newest paid version probably won't either. Oh well.

[HugoVirtuoso]

[I posted this separately from the webserver thread to avoid this getting lost]

In the future, I'll want to try compiling ToME 2.3.11-ah (and maybe other variants) on Windows 10 Home 64-bit. AH already said any recent GCC or Clang would work. But, I want to know what Windows 64-bit compiler(s) you guys actually use.

If not Windows 64-bit compiler, I will take recommendations for Windows 32-bit compilers as well. I thought it might be a good idea to seek Windows 32-bit compilers in case I encounter a Windows environment that isn't 64-bit (i.e. for compatibility reasons now that I think of it)!

[Rydel]

I use GCC in Min-GW. It has both 32 and 64-bit versions available and, to my knowledge, has full support for C++14.