Re: development on windows

[Jonathan Kulp]

Graham Percival wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 04:44:30PM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
> > On 6/13/09 11:39 PM, "Bertalan Fodor" <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm sure there are tools which would make it easier for us, simple not
> > > hackers, but software engineers, grown up on Microsoft Visual Studio end
> > > Eclipse. I remember that at university I did use some ide for linux cpp
> > > development. That's why I was seeking recommendation.
> > The standard GNU answer is to use emacs to integrate your compiler,
> > debugger, etc.  You can open a directory in emacs and then open any file
> > from that directory, so it's useful for browsing the source, as well.
>
> That's not really what I'd recommend for windows people, though.
> I'd say two things:
>
> 1)  Since this image will install a complete linux distro, you can
> install any Linux GUI programming IDE you want.
> (we should specify this in the CG where we discuss the windows
> iso)
>
> 2)  I don't know what the current favorite fancy IDE is, although
> I'm fairly certain that Eclipse runs on Linux.  I'm not certain if
> that would actually be good for LilyPond, though -- does it
> support C++ and makefiles?  IIRC eclipse is for java stuff.
>
> (again, I'm happy to dump whatever suggestions people throw at me
> in the CG)

I've never worked on C++ files, but I opened one up in Geany and 
it had nice syntax highlighting plus a "build" menu with lots of 
options, including targets for make, compiling, building, etc. 
Geany's my favorite GUI editor and it's available for both Windows 
and Linux.  A developer would be better able to judge its worth as 
an IDE, but I like it very much and it's easy to install from the 
repos.

BTW I've been fiddling with my Lilybuntu virtual machine and 
finally figured out how to make it go fullscreen (previously I'd 
only been able to view it in a 800x600 window--very annoying). 
It's a bit of a trick to make this work on a virtual Linux machine 
in Sun's VirtualBox.  Once you get it set up, though, it's really 
amazing.  It's a matter of successfully installing "Guest 
Additions."  I don't know if you want to get into VirtualBox 
issues in the CG, especially since others might use different 
virtualization tools, but getting it set up properly will make a 
big difference in the usability of the virtual machine.  Once it's 
fullscreen it looks as if it's the real OS on your computer.  Very 
nice.  I now have my Windows VMs set up this way (much easier on 
the Windows VMs to set up Guest Additions) and it's excellent for 
testing.

Jon

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