Servant of Cats wrote:
The Dev-C++ site says that DevC++ is a "full-featured C and C++ Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Windows platforms." That means that the only way you're could run it on a MacBook Neo would be with the aid of something like a virtual machine program and an installation of Windows 11 for ARM...
Yep.
From the Dec-C++ website:
Dev C++ is primarily a Windows-based IDE, so Mac users can use alternative options like Code::Blocks or Xcode to write and compile C++ code efficiently; however, if you wish to use Dev C++ on a Mac, you can leverage virtualization or Wine to run it.
Dev-C++ is not available for macOS.
Given you have an Apple silicon Mac, download Parallels hypervisor and use that to install Windows 11 Arm AArch64 as a guest. You'll also need to use an Arm-capable compiler with this path, or use UTM or other such emulation. Or maybe the equivalent, but using Wine.
Run the Dev-C++ IDE and the resulting app on Windows. Or on Wine.
the code generated is either x86-64 or AArch64 Arm, and pretty much all of what I see available here is x86-64 only. Which means more work just to run the apps, as they’ll be wrong-architecture.
If you're tied into Microsoft Windows and its associated tooling for business or school or whatever, acquiring an x86-64 system running some semi-recent version of Windows will be your best path. That might be an Intel Mac, or any of the other available hardware options. And you’ll have these and other Windows tools.
On macOS, LLVM Clang is the typical choice for a compiler, and that can either be via the command line, or via Xcode, or via various other options. Of which the Dev-C++ IDE is seemingly not one.
If you can write C++ using a text editor (vi, emacs, whatever) and without depending on an IDE for development, then Clang C++ works just fine from the command line.
Mentioned over at the Dev-C++ website, a quick search for the Code::Blocks project implies the project is not active, and the last release of that is from some six years ago, and the macOS build is listed as unstable: https://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/binaries/ — and almost certainly without AArch64 Arm compiler support.
Or you can learn and use the Apple Xcode IDE, and can use that for C++ development. Xcode is free.
