Hi Brian,
However, if your goal ist to learn to program c++, then you can start
with one of the free ide`s, like Dev-C++ or CodeBlocks. Or MSVC Express.
I had not heard of CodeBlocks but have used Dev-C++ before but it is more of a
Windows based ide and not a GUI in the Cygwin Environment ide is it. What I mean is
are they run from the C: prompt (Windows/Mingw) or the /usr (Cygwin/Linux)? I use
vi to edit in the Cygwin/Linux environment and I guess you really need an ide for
each Unixen vs Win - depending as you say on what you want to do.
I don´t really understand those sentences. Of course one doesn´t need an
ide, no matter where you work. You can work with makefiles for vc++,
too, or you can build your vcproj from the command-line. What I do is to
use DialogBlocks, which is a Dialog-Editor for wxWidgets. It generates
makefiles for the gnu-compiler and makefiles and project-files for
visual-c++. So I can use the same IDE on every platform (Linux, Windows,
Macintosh) and use gcc on linux and mac and use vc++ on windows.
Also now through
one of my customer I have Visual Studio 2005 (with C++) so I have a Windows IDE but
I do like the GNU C++ since it is more versatile (in my opinion) but do still need a
good ide.
I don´t think that gcc is more versatile at the moment. gcc used to be
more compliant to the c++-standard, but microsoft has really improved in
that matter. And don´t forget that on windows (mingw and cygwin) you
still have the (very old) 3.x - series of gcc. On windows, gcc produces
bigger and slower executables. The matter with OSG is that the more
"modern" examples, like osgdepthshadow, do not work with mingw (at least
I didn´t get them to work, though there are "tricks" to do them). At the
moment I am happy that I have managed to switch my windows-development
from using gcc to using vc++.
Do you also want to do user-interface stuff? GUI, I mean?
Regards,
Andreas
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