While the old C++ compiler, cfront, needed special steps to compile (since it was built using C++), you can build cake for Windows or Linux easily.

Jack Wallen shows you the step-by-step process of compiling a C++ program on Linux, using Ubuntu Desktop 23.04 for his demo.

GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 15.1 has arrived with improvements for programming languages ranging from Rust to C to Cobol.