Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:25:45 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Leo S. Boegly" <leo.s.boegly@lmco.com> Cc: FreeBSD <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: C/C++ Programming & IDE's Message-ID: <20010716212545.B19172@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <3B525888.B1C83CA9@lmco.com>; from leo.s.boegly@lmco.com on Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 10:59:20PM -0400 References: <3B525888.B1C83CA9@lmco.com>
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From: Leo S. Boegly <leo.s.boegly@lmco.com> Subject: C/C++ Programming & IDE's Date: Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 10:59:20PM -0400 > Hello FreeBSD world! > > Looking for some help. I'm trying to find a good C/C++ Integrated > Development Environment(IDE) that will run under FreeBSD 4.2 or > better. It's not like I'm looking forward to start a flamewar here, but you don't really _need_ an IDE to program in FreeBSD (or any other Unix, for that matter). This is part of the beauty of it all. > I'm looking to get into network programming and device driver > development. If anyone out their can point me "to/away from" some > IDE's, it would be greatly appreciated! Most of the people I know are comfortable enough with the usual edit/compile/debug/repeat thing, that tend to find IDE's cumbersome to work with. Using vi/emacs as the editor, and crafting the proper Makefiles to compile it all, then fire up gdb as the debugger, one does not really need any IDE to work on FreeBSD. But this is, of course, my humble opinion and I cannot force it upon anyone else. If what you're looking for is some form of syntax highlighting (this is what most of the people coming from IDE's are missing, when they are first confronted with a FreeBSD system), you can install vim from ports/editors and put ":set syntax on" in your ~/.vimrc or use Emacs under X11 with global-font-lock turned on. Other editors in Unix provide similar features, and you can find lots and lots of them in the ports of FreeBSD. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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