C++ programming without using visual studio 2: EditPlus IDE

C++ programming is needed for developer and engineering students due to C++ fast compilation and compatibility with many IoT platforms. Even though, computer’s hardware and storage are getting larger day by day; many notebook makers nowadays solder the fast storage module “SSD” on board. This makes upgrading storage almost impossible and triple the price of SSD upgrading choice when buying. Many programmers I know chose instead of large storage, a bigger on “board soldered” RAM. Installing visual studio will take from roughly from 2 to 30 GB of the SSD area, which is inconvenient for the previously mentioned notebooks. Therefore, I am sharing ways of build C++ programming environment with less installing storage as possible.

Continuing our the series of programming without visual studio. Here we will introduce EditPlus editor.

Install C++ compiler and Set the environment

Here we will introduce MinGW-w64 as C++. Installing the compiler was introduced in a previous article

Install EditPlus

EditPlus can be installed as a trail version for 30 days from here.

After installing EditPlus, it can be configure to run C++ as follows:

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Now:

1- from Add tool make “Menu text “ with any name you want. Here we chosen Compile C++.

2-In” Command “ section, browse to MinGW-w64 install directory and chose “g++.exe”.

3-In” Argument” section put the following text

$(FileName) -g -o $(FileNameNoExt).exe

4-In “Initial directory” section put the following text

$(FileDir)

5- Check “ Capture Output” and click “OK”

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6- Add a new tool for running. Here we will use the name Run++ in “Menu Text:”. You can chose any preferable name you want.

7- In “ Command” put the following text

$(FileNameNoExt)

8- In “Initial directory” put the following text

$(FileDir)

In tool you should have the newly made Compile and run commands

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Write the following hello world program and compile it the run it using the newly made (Compile C++) and (Run C++) commands

#include<iostream>  
  
using namespace std; 
  
// main function - 
// where the execution of program begins 
int main() 
{ 
    // prints hello world 
    cout<<"Hello World!"; 
      
    return 0; 
}

you should get

Hello World!

as an output.

We conclude our second choice of small size C++ programming suite.