I just fired up the old Windows box and did the following:
- installed Dev-C++ v4.992, the Full package with the gcc compiler etc. Default settings, including creating the header cache.
- Ran it, created a new Windows Application project (in its own directory). The project already contains the basic code you need to create a Windows application.
- compiled it (Ctrl-F9), saving main.cpp in the process, without touching the code at all. No errors.
- ran it (Ctrl-F10): a blank "Windows App" with nothing in the window, which was pretty much what I expected.
See what I did there? I tested the basic installation of Dev-C++, one thing at a time, and described what happened. It shows that, in my case, it's installed and configured correctly. So, since all that works for me, then I can be pretty sure that problems I have later are not Dev-C++, or the compilation process, but in the code I write. At that point, I start looking for a Real Programmer...
