On 17 Jan, Lionel B wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:23:49 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> for my students I am looking for a package for Windows >> which includes SciTE (of course), gcc-4.x and (probably) >> the Cygwin environment. >> Ideally it should install a ready to go SciTE+gcc on >> a Windows workstation. > > Not quite sure what you mean by a "package". Nor is it clear whether you > intend to install, say, one copy of SciTE + compiler on a centralised > server to be accessible to all your students, or whether each student is > expected to install a copy of SciTE + compiler on their individual > workstation. The first option would be by far the easier - both on yourself > and on your students, I imagine!
Here at the university's computer lab we use Linux, so there is no problem at all. But I want my students to continue experiencing C++ at home. Since nearly all of them have Windows installed (preinstalled if you buy a PC), the best thing would be one big .exe file which invokes an installer which installs SciTE, g++ and anything else needed for that. > For gcc one option is, as you say, to install Cygwin (http://cygwin.com) > for a complete Linux-like environment, if this is what you want/need. I > think Cygwin distribute a gcc 4.x, although it may not be in the "default" > setup (I think this is still at 3.4.x). Setting up Cygwin is not wildly > difficult, but I'm not sure I'd want to impose this burden on a class-full > of students... > > The other option is to go for Mingw (http://www.mingw.org), a Windows > "native" port of gcc. If you don't want/need the full Linux-like > environment this is probably the best option... BUT, I don't think there > is a 4.x available (yet). Thanks, I'll check that. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany _______________________________________________ Scite-interest mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scite-interest
