From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 18 15:50:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D427E37B404 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:50:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404CD43EA3 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:50:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id 51B364FC9F; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:46:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C1FF4A0E; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:46:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:46:45 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: Matthias Trevarthan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD C/C++ Development Environment (updated) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, John Bleichert wrote: > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:36:59 -0400 (EDT) > From: John Bleichert > To: Matthias Trevarthan > On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Matthias Trevarthan wrote: > > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:30:41 -0400 > > From: Matthias Trevarthan > > > > Howdy. > > > > I'm a Windows C/C++ DirectX developer turned FreeBSD systems administrator. > > > > What is the standard development environment on FreeBSD systems for C/C++? > > > > Does everyone really just use a Makefile, and editor like VIM, and a > > command-line compiler? Or is that just the distributed format, and everyone > > uses something else to actually write/debug their code? > > > > You'll have to forgive my ignorance. I've been using Microsoft Visual Studio > > for the last 6 years. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Matthias > > > > If you like a full IDE like Visual Studio, check out KDevelop. A slimmer > but function-rich C/C++ editor is Code Crusader. I prefer Nedit. And yes, > Make and makefiles are the way to go. There are many front-ends to the > command line compilers (KDevelop and Code Crusader both provide compile > buttons) but they all use the command line stuff behind the scenes. > > All those editors and many more are in the ports collection. I used VS for > a few years, I used Code Crusader for quite a while when I switched to > *nix, and I now prefer Nedit as it's useful for many, many languages. vi > and emacs are fine too, but I prefer a graphical editor. I use vi > constantly on remote boxes. > > Also, there's Visual Slickedit. It's not even nearly free, but many people use it at work in Windows, Linux and AIX and it's an excellent, full-blown IDE. http://www.slickedit.com/ I still prefer Nedit, but I would have been remiss in my duties if I didn't point this one out :) Runs on lots of platforms. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message