From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 3 09:33:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA10920 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:33:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA10900 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:32:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte@webmore.com) Received: from neuron.webmore.com (unverified [194.95.214.175]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Wed, 03 Jun 1998 18:33:46 +0200 Received: from neuron.webmore.de (malte@webmore.com) by neuron.webmore.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00791; Wed, 3 Jun 1998 18:31:22 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 18:31:21 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: malte@webmore.com From: Malte Lance To: Doug White Subject: Re: development environments Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Brian O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-Jun-98 Doug White wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Brian O'Connor wrote: > > For development, FreeBSD is quite strong. The build environment is very > tight and standardized. > >> SGI has a great varsity pack deal that gives us high level commercial >> C++/C,fortran,cosmo(java) and ada development packages. > > You get all that for free from us! :) We have the Sun JDK ported over, > c/c++ is stock with the system, and fortran & ada can be had from the > ports tree. Then on top of this you get xemacs, with language-support for C/C++, ADA, Java, Shell, ... More, xemacs interfaces to CVS (version-control-system) and to native debuggers. Then there is "ddd" a graphical UI to native debugger which is very powerfull. Also have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/java for getting JWS running on FreeBSD. Development on FreeBSD is really fun. Malte. > >> Is FreeBSD limited to gcc and other GNU tools?(we have found them very >> buggy) > > Depends on which gcc you use. 2.7.x comes default on FreeBSD 2.2.x > systems, and -current will probably move to gcc 2.8 when it gets stable. > There is a gcc28 port if you want it tho. The stock berkeley cc/c++ is > also provided. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Malte Lance Date: 03-Jun-98 Time: 18:21:32 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message