Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 18:31:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Brian O'Connor" <boc@ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au> Subject: Re: development environments Message-ID: <XFMail.980603183121.malte@webmore.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980603010051.22038V-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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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 <malte@webmore.com> 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
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