making homebrew

**katachristic** · July 24th, 2009, 01:15

i thought not.

i meant notepad. sorry.

when you said command prompt i was a little more interested b/c i thought you meant run cmd
i do enjoy playing with that
where could i learn about whatever it is that i need to make a compiler set-up?

i am extremely pissed at codeblocks b/c nobody there is very helpful.
the only reply i received at all was one instructing me to build the entire thing from scratch.
they provided instructions but not only are they unclear, but they give incorrect links and each step in the instructions has like four steps within that.
i shouldnt have to perform 4 steps to do step 1.
im sick of jumping through F'n hoops and im just about ready to give p on codeblocks
i got my meds so im really mello right now, i had a brutal workout, and i have to wake up at 3AM tomorrow to a total of 10 hrs in a car full of people i dont like.
needless to say i will not be up all night googling it.
its all so terribly depressing... sorry.

Anyways just need to know where to learn about compilers and ill do the rest one notepad. Would notepad and a compiler really be enough to start programming?

btw look in the junk forum under cmd trick for something fun.

**VampDude** · July 24th, 2009, 11:23

Firstly:

Coding something from scratch is the only way you will learn, it's the best piece of advice for a beginner. They aren't being mean or anything.

Secondly:

Are you sure the links are incorrect? On many sites I've visited, the links have had http replaced with hxxp for reasons I can only imagine as the links not showing otherwise (or preventing a direct link).

Lastly:

Is it StarWars? If so I'm not going to look, I've seen it twice since 2006.

**katachristic** · July 27th, 2009, 05:04

coding from scratch is fine but holy sh*t man, u have to start with beginner coding exercises not building my own IDE

either the link is incorrect or they dont have the files im looking for
it said to use the 3.4.5 ver. dll and they provide a link but it takes me to a download page where they have like 9 files that all say 1.0.5 or something like that???
the only difference is the file extension.
all i can figure is that all of these are supposed to be combined to create the 1.0.5 compiler.
this is not only the wrong ver. but i was only instructed to download the dll pack which i was supposed to then install
and how u install a dll file by itself is beyond me.
my only possible guess to any of this is that there are prerequisites to this that they assume the user has.
it does actually state that "if you are using this version then you are not an average user"