Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 13:22:30 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: TEWisdom@cs.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hi! Bunch of newbie questions Message-ID: <20000701132230.A6862@physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <73.4a8f626.268ef7b9@cs.com>; from TEWisdom@cs.com on Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 03:28:57AM -0400 References: <73.4a8f626.268ef7b9@cs.com>
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TEWisdom@cs.com said on Jul 1, 2000 at 03:28:57: > *Where's a good mailing list or newsgroup to start asking stupid questions > about C/C++? Don't know -- but there are lots of good Unix-oriented books available. > *Can I install FreeBSD on my computer, and switch back and forth between it > and Windows when I need to? How would this be done? You can. (You have to reboot to "switch back and forth".) See the installation instructions on the FreeBSD web page. > *Do I need to install a UNIX platform, such as Free BSD, to use a C/C++ > compiler? If not, how would I use such a thing on Windows? You can pay money to Microsoft or others; or you can try the Cygwin package (http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/) which includes windows versions of the GNU compiler tools, which are the tools used by FreeBSD, Linux and others. I don't know of any other free compilers. > *Of these different compilers, can someone tell me what good (free) c++ > variant they might reccommend? I hear that Borland is really easy to use > (from the Borland website, so I take this with a grain of salt), is there a > free variant that is as easy? All compilers are equally easy. You're probably looking for an "integrated development environment" which includes compiler, editor, debugger, point-and-click code generators etc etc merged together. There are such things for unix too, which basically give you a front end to command-line compilers like gcc and debuggers like gdb. I haven't used them but I've read good things about kdevelop (http://www.kdevelop.org). > *Are there any good, free tutorials written for newbies (on any or all of the > subjects above, 'cept for HTML--I've got that one licked) that I might be > able to use? (I already know 'bout the ones on the FreeBSD site, and I'm > looking through them) Try the HOWTO's at http://www.linuxdoc.org -- not all of it may be directly applicable to FreeBSD, but quite a lot is. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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