On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Rodrigo F Oliveira wrote:
> A friend of mine is thinking about give up with windows and come to linux
> but he has some doubts and I couldn't help him with them.
> He became very impressed with the look of kde and with the resources of
> mandrake in general. We decided to look for a good programing environment.
> I showed him gcc and g++ and compiled some of my own programs but I am
> afraid he was expecting something more. He is used to work with VC++,
> C++Builder, Visual Basic and therefore he is looking for a environment with
> a compiler, a debugger etc. (everything integrated) with a good GUI. I told
> him that I didn't know anything like that but I could ask for something in
> some mailing lists.
> I received some messages and in one of them there was an advice: "Take a
> look at Kdevelop ( http://samuel.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~smeier/kdevelop_new/)".
> Well, we went there and became very impressed with the snapshots and with
> the texts explaining all the capabilities of the program. We downloaded the
> 0.4 version and the programs that are needed to have kdevelop running. Here
> our problems started. First, we couldn't compile any of these programs and
> any of them are provided in rpm except kdevelop.
I couldn't get Glimpse to compile either (and didn't try any of the others).
If I've had one big problem with M6, it's programs I download routinely failing
to compile.
> I am looking for someone who is working with kdevelop and could give us
> some tips about having these programs compiled and working fine in Mandrake
> 6.0. If someone is working with any other development environment (with a
> good GUI) and would like to point it as an alternative I would be grateful.
>
> best regards,
> Rodrigo
There are a few IDE's available for download at Linuxberg (go to
www.linuxberg.com and pick a mirror). I'm not much of a programmer myself so I
don't know how they compare with each other, but I think Code Crusador is one
of the more popular IDE's.
-Tom
