Write windows C/C++ code to quickly transform and display an image

Rewrite my slow perl script in C/C++. Provide me with the SIMPLE source code and instructions on how to compile it in a "free" windows environment. I would prefer something like the windows express C++ environment that I can just take your C++ and compile and make it work. I don't want to have to buy a $1000 development environment. Or some free command line tools might be even better. Here is my perl script. Please provide me with a quote to do this job. Your code will have the following properties. It runs and follows my example of first opening sockets in ordrer to get an image from the network device. Then it takes the data and puts an image on the screen. It does not use MSPAINT.EXE. I did that because it was increadibly easy for me to get it working. Instead it opens a window and displays the image. The code should be able to then send out another command to get another image so that we can see the next image replace the old one. This would basically be video althought due to speed limitations we would really onlbe able to achieve a 2-5 frames per second perhaps. So I think displaying one image at a time would be acceptable.