Turbo C/C++ and other junk compilers help, discussions and queries here

[damngoodman999]

PM me your mail ID ! i ll send u .

[rajsujayks]

guys as we all know that we have been using the turbo c software and been writing c programs in a blue type screen since years. But the turbo c compiler is not working on the latest os that is windows 7.

plz guys suggest a sufficient and strong reason to support this.
if not suggest me another compiler..........

Turbo C won't work in Windows 7 64-bit [as it isn't compatible with 16-bit programs] but would work in 32-bit...

As for an alternative C compiler...I'm a BE CSE student and I'm using Code::Blocks with the mingw gcc compiler... It's basically the same as Turbo C except some statements...It follows the GCC syntax (the proper ANSI C syntax) and if you can go through it, it's very good...

[damngoodman999]

^^ I ran turbo C in WIN 7 ! i have the whole to make it run without hassle .

[rajsujayks]

^^ I ran turbo C in WIN 7 ! i have the whole to make it run without hassle .

Turbo C will run in Windows 7 32-bit perfectly...But not in Windows 7 64-bit unless you use an emulator like DOSBOX!

[damngoodman999]

Without using DOSCOX we made another step u want pm ur mail ID

[TSPatange_1309]

Hey Hello Guyzz...I hav one programming query...! I am using turbo C++ in Win. Xp...the directory of TC is C:\Program Files\TC...I want to execute one program in TC...but its too big..! Thats y i copy-paste that program in notepad file as .txt...in BIN directory (C:\Program Files\TC\BIN)...Now i want to open that txt file in C...so first i open TC > File > Open....The name of my txt file is addons.txt...so i wrote C:\Program Files\TC\BIN\addons.txt in textbox...but after hitting enter just blank blue (default) screen is appearing again and again...its not opening in C...how to open it??? Plzz help me...!
Ryte now i am

[krishnandu.sarkar]

So basically that .txt file contains C program right??

Just name that file as xxx.cpp(For C++) / xxx.c(For C) instead of xxx.txt

[Vyom]

C+ would have open the file, if you had input right filename, with right path.
So, when you click File -> Open, you should put *.txt in open dialog text box, this will allow you to select any .txt file inside the folders.

But, even if the file open, you can't compile it, since it would be a text file. So you would have to save as, it as a .cpp file.

So, in conclusion, you should have not saved the file as .txt in the first place. You can save it as a .cpp file in notepad itself. But do that selecting, "All files", under "Save as Type".

[nims11]

dont use turbo c++. just kidding. do as krishnandu said!

[sagarb]

Hi Friends,

I'm a student of Information Technology(I.T.) I own a laptop. Dell Inspirion N5010. Its configuration is as follows:-
4GB Ram
500GB Hard Disk
Intel Core i5 M460 @ 2.53GHz (turbo boost upto 2.8GHz)
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
1GB Graphics Card.

My problem is that I can't run Turbo C and Turbo C++ on my system. I use Oracle Virtual Box and then run Turbo C & C++ in Windows XP Professional.

When I run a program of Bresenham's Algorithm, it doesn't give me any error when I press Ctrl+F9 and Alt+F9. But, when I try to run the program from the Run Option. I t gives me error.

There's no error in the coding of the program. I ran it successfully in my college's PC which have Windows XP as an OS.

Please help me out of this as my exams are approaching and I'm not able to practice despite of having my own system.

Sagar

[Neuron]

Could be a problem with the virtual environment.Use some other compilers like Microsoft Visual C++

[Vyom]

^ He is doing Graphics Programming and sadly he is stuck.

@Sagarb, First of all you need to run the TC IDE FULL SCREEN.

Make sure you enable the graphics libraries.


haha! I liked the name of this thread! "..other JUNK compilers"

BTW, Ontopic:
@sagarb: You should provide the appropriate error messages and/or screen-shots, so that we can debug your error.

[anderson108]

hey all,
m learnin c++...i wantd to ask wat is the role og "getch()" in a program.....
i mean most of the programs mentioned in buks nd even on websites don't have a "getch" wriiten before closing main()....but i hv seen dat to get d desired result....i always have to add dis......

why is dis so?? nd is it necessary????

Hey friend Getch(); is used for a program which is modified like that it doesn`t returnany value.
it`s declaration is like :
void main()
here void is the return type .It shows that the current program doesn`t return any value.
i will show you a simple program compiled with Turbo c++:

#include<iostream.h>
#include<conio.h>
void main()
{
clrscr();
cout<<"HELLO";
getch();
}

if now you have any question __ please ask me!!!!!!!!!

[shiwa436]

Do the following program prints the output 'hello'

void main()
{
if(printf("hello"))
}

[Vyom]

Do the following program prints the output 'hello'

void main()
{
if(printf("hello"))
}

No, but the following would.

void main()
{
if(printf("hello"));
}

[somulesnar]

HII fellas

My turbo c is not working on full screen in windows 7 64 bit?
however it is working properly in small size window
plz help me to sort out this problem
if i press alt+enter it produce full screen but working of c stops it hangs up
and nothing works at that time

I want u guys to help me out find a better compiler for windows 7....

[krishnandu.sarkar]

Read this guide : C/C++ Beginner's Guide and Post Basic Questions here

I really don't recommend using Turbo C. Why??? Read that guide I posted above.

And if you really don't have any option, use Doxbox : DOSBox, an x86 emulator with DOS

[vamsi360]

Use GCC and Geany.

[Tejas.Gupta]

I too have the same problem but i dont see any solution to it.. :-/
And i suppose u need Turbo C because it is used in your CS classes, if i'am right
Same scenario is with me mate

[krishnandu.sarkar]

^^In that case why don't you guys try Dosbox??

[nbaztec]

I wish the Indian educational institutes can stop sucking on the tit of "I-only-know-this" mentality.

Apart from the conventional "sane" alternatives:
- MingW/GCC
- Code::Blocks (nice)
- Dev C++
- Microsoft Visual C++ Express (Heck, even M$ is doing their bit for the society).

There are other things:
- Emulate 16-bit working environment using DosBOX
- Emulate Virtual Machine. Some freewares are available. (My pref). VirtualBox. VMPlayer, etc.

If you're hell bent upon using the sundial to know the time and/or helpless 'coz Teh Old Folks think you're too small to outsmart them, here are my 2 cents:

- Full Screen for TC
- If you're too lazy to even bother with DosBox, here's a one-stop-single-click app. Just give path to TC and click. (Set directories within TC as: "INCLUDE" & "LIB", no paths)

P.S. Someone mentioned Yashwant Kanetkar, it's a sh!tty book with no regard to ANSI standards. It's a sad sad thing universities actually recommend this piece of crap.

[tuxybuzz]

I really hate it when Turbo is referred to as C++..lol.
Most students don't even know that Turbo is not the goddamn language. Thankfully my lab has a linux box with gcc.

[achuthan1988]

i installed DOSBOX 0.74 and turbo c++ in the directory c:\TC
But the BIN,INCLUDE and LIB folders are in a TC folder inside c:\TC
so when i launched tc++ with DOSBOX it showed invalid directory.So i changed the directory to C:\TC\TC\INCLUDE and C:\TC\TC\LIB.But still when i compile it shows iostream.h not found and so on...

[thetechfreak]

I think you should keep that directory empty. Even I got this error at my school sometimes.

[nims11]

after opening turboC++, goto options->directories and enter the path to the different directories there.

[nbaztec]

Try the one-click app, mentioned in my post.

[sanjeeb_san]

Hi guys , i m a beginner in c++ , i was trying to create a simple program that prints any random line for infinity times without interruption .. but it has to abort if the user wants ,say ( he can press any key to abort).

I tried the program like this

for(;
{
cout<<"hello";
cin>>ch;
if(ch=='y')break;
}




i encounter a problem that the program was stopping to take an i/p every time it get into the loop.... that is undesireable .....
plz help me out to solve this problem....

I would expect that i would get solution very soon

[Vyom]

^ First of all, welcome to TDF.

Well, you can use kbhit() function to interrupt an infinite loop.
But since the mentioned function use conio.h, I must give you a Non Portable Code warning.

It goes like this,

WARNING: NON-PORTABLE CODE

    while(1)
    {
        if (kbhit())
                break;
        cout << "\nHello.";
    }

[aurora]

hello guys can any one help me with this problem i am having implemnting graphics in borland c++ version 5.02?(it's outdated but that's what cbse in it's unparalleld wisdom allows us to use). my problem is :- after carefully setting all the necessary prerequisites and including graphics.h(BGI graphics, DOS standard)when i try to compile the prog. it gives the error "not enough parameters to call initgraph with" whenever the first parameter in initgraph() is set to autodetect.when i try to do it by setting all parameters by hand, all i get is a flashing screen after which the program terminates. PLEASE HELP.

[nims11]

try this

int gd=DETECT, gm;

initgraph(&gd, &gm, "c:\\turboc3\\bgi " );

change the third argument according to your compiler path