Borland C++ Builder

Where to get?

How to start?

• When you start the Builder for the first time (by running Start/Programs/Borland C++Builder 5/C++Builder 5) you see three windows:
• You need to create a new project now. To do that click on File->New... in the opened window choose Console Wizard and click OK:
  
• A dialog window should appear asking you to select options. Be sure to UNCHECK Use VCL
  
• If you do not specify the location of where you will be saving the project, it will be stored in C:\Program Files\Borland\CBuilder5\Projects with the project name as the .exe name
• To save your project you select View->Project Manager, right click on ProjectGroup1, and choose Save Project Group:
  
  You will be prompted for Folder to save to and names for your files and the project name. I would suggest to create a folder for each new project the reason is Borland C++Builder creates many different files for one project and it's better to keep them all in on eplace separate from other projects' files. You will be consequently prompted for
  1. the main file name:
     
  2. the project name
     
  3. and the project group name.
     
  As you can guess from the prictures above for my first project I created folder MyFirstProject, I named my main file main.cpp, my project MyFirst, and my project group MyFirstGroup. Please note that the name of the executable file the Builder creates for you is the same as the name of your project, that is, in my case the name of the builded program is MyFirst.exe and it's located in MyFirstProject folder.
• Entering your first program. In the window with the same name as the name you gave to your main program (in my case it is main.cpp) type your first program:
  
  Here is a program you can use as an example:

  #include <iostream.h>
  
  int main(void)
  {
     int  a, b;
     char c;
     cout<<"Enter the first number a = ";
     cin>>a;
     cout<<"Enter the second number b = ";
     cin>>b;
     cout<<"You entered:\n a = "<<a<<"\n b = "<<b<<"\n";
     cout<<"The ir sum is a+b = "<<a+b<<"\n";
     cout<<"Type 'Q' and press enter to quit\n";
     cin>>c;
     return 0;
  }
  

• Save your program. Once you have entered the program don't forget to Save the project. To do that click on the small diskette image on the toolbar. Don’t worry about what this program says yet. We’ll get to that later.
• Run your program. Simply press the 'Run' button on the toolbar (it looks something like a triangle on its side, or of course, a Play Button). Look toward the message window at the bottom of the screen if you have any difficulties or errors. If you entered everything correctly you should see a black command window like this:
  

Command line version

To use a command line compiler do the following steps:

1. create a file main.cpp using any text editor (for example Notepad) and save the file in a newly created folder let's say C:\work\MyFirst.
2. open the command window (click Start->Run...), type cmd, and hit "Enter"
3. go to the folder you saved your program cd c:\work\MyFirst
4. type bcc32 main.cpp
   
   If you typed everything correctly you should obtain several new files in your folder. So far we are interested in only one of them namely main.exe (or your_program_name.exe). This is the compiled program. To run it just type its name.