Don't know exactly how to put it but how do you "publish" C++ programs?

[theopfor]

I have been learning C++ its a pretty cool language and I have some programs I want other people to see. I only have one problem with it though. I want to send my family the little programs and stuff I have been making and they seem interested in it. Well I want it so that I can make the program into 1)something I can send in an email or upload to a website and 2)have it so they won't have to have an IDE to see it. Almost like a .exe file (I am pretty sure that is what I need but don't know).

 

[carnageX]

If you compile the .CPP, it will create an EXE. This is if you do it in Windows, anyway. If you make it in Linux, it will make a .o file.

Just compile the program in Windows, and it will create an executable file (.exe). Put the program in a zip file, and send it to them.

It might end up in their spam folder since it's a zip file, just tell them to check their spam folder if they don't receive it in their inbox.

 

[theopfor]

How do I compile the code to make it a .exe file? Kinda a noob at this stuff its my first time.

 

[carnageX]

No, main.cpp is the source file. You need to compile it in your IDE, and it should create a .exe file somewhere (either in a debug folder or somewhere, depnding on what IDE you're using). That's the file you need to send. Not a .cpp file.

 

[theopfor]

Sorry this is ever so confusing. How would you create a .exe file in the IDE Code::Blocks?

 

[carnageX]

If you're using Windows, and you hit "Build" (looks like a gear), it creates an executable (.exe file) in <your project folder>\bin\debug

That's the file you want.

If you didn't create a Project, then it should create the executable in the same directory as your .CPP file.

 

[theopfor]

Thanks!

 

[carnageX]

No problem, glad to help.