small C++ compiler for practicing

[wretch]

I want to practice my C++ at work on my lunch breaks. I use their laptop which is pretty much locked down, although I can load up moderately sized files from a USB flash drive. What do you recommend for a small C++ compiler on Windows XP, it can be console based without debugger, IDE, etc... Hopefully it has a very small system footprint due to security constraints. I did a Google and there's a ton of compilers out there, so I'm not sure what to use. I'm thinking maybe GCC ???

[Bazzy]

GCC for Windows is called MinGW.
If you want to download it try at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435

[helios]

A very compressed MinGW is ~15 MB. A decompressed MinGW is 10 times that.

[wretch]

Thanks Bazzy, helios. I'll give MinGW a shot and see what happens. If systems support yells at me, oh well.

[helios]

One thing I forgot to mention: installing MinGW using the installer requires an internet connection. However, you can install it on one computer, then move the whole directory to another and still have a functional compiler.