From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 16 20:39:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D8B137B423 for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 20:39:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA47736; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 23:30:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200009170330.XAA47736@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions List" Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 23:37:06 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) In-Reply-To: <20000917101758.B42114@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: C programming on FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:17:58 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> -Good function list reference. This is one of the things I always admired >> of the Borland C compiler for DOS. It had a great online reference. > >Well, we have a pretty good reference too, sections 2 and 3 of the >manual. Cross references and overviews are a little more of a >problem. Which manual? >> So far I have started to read the GNU Info file. > >That's not idea. Which one? I started with the Gnu C info pages. After all that is the tool I will be using. I also bought Code-Forge since I am used to programming with the help of an IDE. I find that they aid greatly productivity wise, specially while one is starting out. The IDE is why I have always liked Borland tools, Delphi in particular, since they help with a lot of the mundane things. >Hmm. I'm sure there are more than you would like to see. Check out >the /usr/ports/devel. I actually did a search on the ports collection for the word "library". Lots of good possible candidates. What I was hoping thought was for any recommendations on libraries known to be woth the time/effor to learn them. In particular I was hoping to find out, what if any, libraries are part of the standard distribution. Long term I would like to work on the FreeBSD userland and try to make friendlier. I see no reason for a lot of the arcane interfaces int he OS other than the fact nobody has had time to work on them. I really have never been too crazy about C, but it is what FreeBSD uses AND it sure has much more appeals to employers than Delphi. I love Delphi, but compared to the number of C jobs Delphi jobs are scarce. Also I feel myself much more attached to the FreeBSD project than to Delphi. There is also the issue of Borland been so clueless that I am timid to continue to invest time on a tool that the company is just surviging so to speak. >> TCP/IP library. > >That's in libc. I see a /usr/src/lib/libc which has a number of directories. Is this what you were refering to? >The best you can find are intro(2) and intro(3). Thanks for those two pointers. intro(3) looks interesting. Between that and the libs on the ports I think I have a good starting point. Wasn't there at some point discussions of a developer handbook or FAQ? francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message