From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 30 17:12:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA27561 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:12:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from winjef (pppa01.gateway.net.hk [202.76.19.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA27468 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:12:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from john@localhost) by winjef (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA01307; Tue, 30 Jan 1996 14:46:20 GMT Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 14:46:19 +0000 () From: John Beukema To: Robert Nordier cc: Paul Blonde , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compilers In-Reply-To: <199601292032.WAA00449@eac.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Robert Nordier wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Paul Blonde wrote: > > > > I am interested in finding out if there is any > > effort/interest in creating (if it does not already exist) > > an advanced IDE comparable to the > > Borland/Microsoft/Watcom/etc. environments for > > FreeBSD and/or Linux. > > Ever heard of Emacs? :-) > > Seriously, though, by Integrated Development Environment do you mean > DOS-based stuff like (I guess this is pretty out of date) Turbo C 2.0 > or the Microsoft Programmer's Workbench, or are you talking Windows- > based things like Visual C++ or Delphi? Al Williams's recent series in Dr Dobbs is integrating dflat (the character based GUI platform) with gcc and gdb on the DOS side. It might be an interesting starting point. jbeukema