Programmer's Notepad (http://www.pnotepad.org/) is a free lightweight text editor, designed for editing source code. With a tille customization PN can call do the basic chores of an IDE: call an external tool, capture the output, and jump to the source line that corresponds to an error message.

OPen a C++ file, and Select Tools => Options => Tools.

Click Add. Create an entry for 'make build':

You can leave the Console I/O tab unchanged. The shortcut key can be configured by selected the field and pressing the key (or combination) you prefer. I choose F6 for building, F8 for running, no shortcut for cleaning. Likewise make the entry for cleaning:

And for runnung:

You can activate the make commands either by their shortcut or from the Tools menu.

As shown the make commands will first save all modified files.

Tips:

• enable View => Line Numbers
• the make commands will be executed in the directory of the selected file, hence you must select a file in your project directory!