From: ShmooVe AT vvi DOT net (ShmooVe) Subject: Re: IDEs (was: Please Help...) 20 Feb 1998 00:22:40 -0800 Message-ID: <34EC7653.81B41BFF.cygnus.gnu-win32@vvi.net> References: <01BD3D05 DOT 6DF2EE50 DOT zow AT mdbs DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "zow AT mdbs DOT com" Cc: Aram Nahidipour , "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" "Zow" Terry Brugger wrote: > Not specifically for GNU-Win32, available freely. In fact, this is where > Cygnus (the ever so belivolient (sp?) creators of GNU-Win32) makes their > money: they have an IDE for the system. It looks to be quite good, although > I haven't had a chance to use it as we're rather locked into MS's > environment here. You might be able to find a generic *nix solution to your > problem; for instance at the moment I'm trying to convince XEmacs to > compile for GNU-Win32 (if anyone has any experience with that, please let > me know). If I get that working, I'll send out an announcement: that could > be the kind of solution you're looking for. > > > Ahh. . . the days. . . > > I seemed to have went thought all > the > executible's and there seems to be no shell like RHIDE. I thought gdb was > the > shell, seeing how it's 850k, but it seemed to be some other type of shell I > don't understand. > > Correct. It's the debugger. Take the time to learn it. It's fairly > primitive as debuggers go these days, but there are some good GUI > front-ends to it (one I know is written in TCL/Tk, so it should work in > GNU-Win32, no experience with it). Even with just the command line > interface, it will cut your debugging time by an order of magnitude. It > will eliminate those stupid cout's of all of your variables. I wish that I > had spent more time learning it when I was at your stage. > > It's just I don't know how to, > let's say, write code in wordpad and then compile it with gcc without help > files > etc.... > > Ouu. . . Wordpad. . . bad way to edit source. . . Try Emacs: There's a link > to it from Cygnus's ported software page. There are also a ton of > programmer's editors out there: dl some evals and test them out. They're > worth the small outlay of cash (even for a starving college student). I > hate to say it, but I like MS's Visual editor the best of all the Win32 > editors I've used. In fact, I used Visual J++ just for the editor (and > compiled w/ Sun's JDK) until VisualAge for Java came out. You should be > able to get VC++ at an academic price (which was like $99 when I got mine > four years ago). > You may also want to check the gcc infopage. This requires an info viewer. > This might be in the NT Emacs port mentioned above. Barring that, you > should be able to find the info on-line. I think gnu's site has their all > their info trees on it. > > Thanx for everyones help > Jimmy McMillan > > You're welcome, > Terry Wow... thank terry. I was looking around and was wondering about the Source Navagator??? Is that possiblly what i'm looking for? I off to get Emacs now. Thanx Again. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".