Compiling a file with TCC on windows with a library from C99

Question

So the latest version of TCC supposedly has some of the features of C99 implemented, however, I have found that it does not include C99's Math library.

Is there a way I can get it to use more of C99's libraries on windows? I googled around and found some advice mostly pertaining to Linux, but for this project I need to get it to work on windows.

EDIT: This is not a question about getting 'any' compiler on the windows platform. I realize that there are many compilers. I specifically need to get TCC to do this.

EDIT: The project needs to do some on the fly C compilation, and we would like to see if we can use TCC for this feature.

• Hans Passant: Be specific, what is missing??
• phuclv: Why do you use TCC for a large project? Its optimizer are not good and most probably used for small scale purpose. GCC and Clang have rather good C99 support
• timsbleung: The project needs to do some on the fly C compilation, and we would like to see if we can use TCC for this feature
• phuclv: According to TCC website, nothing much in C99 are supported thought
• timsbleung: yeah, that's why I was asking if anyone had experience integrating their own packages into the compiler. I know on linux some guy from a previous question was able to compile tcc himself adding in some of his own libs from /usr/lib/. I would like to know if anyone had done anything similar in windows

Answer 1

The documentation for Windows indicates that the TCC installation on Windows deploys a minimal set of MinGW headers. Copy the headers you need from MinGW into the tcc/include/winapi (i.e. place them under tcc-build-root/win32/include/winapi) and then build tcc with build-tcc.bat.

Answer 2

Try Visual Studio Express Edition for 'C'.It's free and IDE is more developed than TCC

• Hans Passant: Hehe, no, not for C99 :)
• Vagish: @Hans Why not?VS C++ 2013 supports C99
• phuclv: @Vagish no, not complete. "Visual C++ 2013 implements support for most of C99 by utilizing libraries from Dinkumware.". VC is a C++ compiler and it never aims for fully C99 support blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2013/07/19/… msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh409293.aspx
• phuclv: "Microsoft has made it clear that they see no strong push from the market to allocate resources to support C99 in MSVC, so it's almost certain that the only parts of C99 you'll see in MSVC's C compiler mode are those that get brought in because of C++." stackoverflow.com/questions/9610747/…
• nobody: @LưuVĩnhPhúc That second quote is from 2012. VS2013 does add many C99 features that previous versions of the VC compiler lacked.