Say for example I'm running someone's example code and I just want to check to see why it's not running. ex: helping people out on the fourms. I don't want to have to create a new project each time..that really is cumbersome. I just want to add a source file to the IDE and let it compile, JUST that source that I'm in right then. If I want to put them under one project then fine...that should be the user's choice though.
Well, that i sthe problem, in an environment like Windows, which is a specific target for Pelle's C, you simply can't "just compile one source file", that's what I tried to tell you.
And as I mentioned, I am doing all the time just that, copy&paste of samples from forum posts in order to help out people. And if you look a little bit around, those aren't always "simple C programs" (I still have to assume you are referring to "console" programs). So you have to make some choices as how to set up the environment (compile and linker) in order to get a result, and that's what is defined per project. And honestly, the way how this works in Pelle's C isn't even remotely something that I would consider "cumbersome". Try to do the same thing in something like OpenWatcom C(++), THEN you know what cumbersome is.
It seriously isn't so as if you have spend half an hour to get started, it seriously is just 4 or 5 mouse clicks. And removing a test "project" is just as easy and quick as creating it, just delete the project folder and you're done...
Ralf