Question 18.3

What's a free or cheap C compiler I can use?

A popular and high-quality free C compiler is the FSF's GNU C compiler, or gcc. It is available by anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu in directory pub/gnu, or at several other FSF archive sites. An MS-DOS port, djgpp, is also available; it can be found in the Simtel and Oakland archives and probably many others, usually in a directory like pub/msdos/djgpp/ or simtel/msdos/djgpp/.

There is a shareware compiler called PCC, available as PCC12C.ZIP .

A very inexpensive MS-DOS compiler is Power C from Mix Software, 1132 Commerce Drive, Richardson, TX 75801, USA, 214-783-6001.

Another recently-developed compiler is lcc, available for anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.princeton.edu in pub/lcc.

Archives associated with comp.compilers contain a great deal of information about available compilers, interpreters, grammars, etc. (for many languages). The comp.compilers archives (including an FAQ list), maintained by the moderator, John R. Levine, are at iecc.com . A list of available compilers and related resources, maintained by Mark Hopkins, Steven Robenalt, and David Muir Sharnoff, is at ftp.idiom.com in pub/compilers-list/. (See also the comp.compilers directory in the news.answers archives at rtfm.mit.edu and ftp.uu.net; see question 20.40.)