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Sun, 01 May 2005 15:35

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: btabenkin.verizon.net

This is a real novice question, but is it realistic to now do windows
developemnt with CDT? I use Visual C++ with Make files? What would be
the idiot steps to get this working? Would I need to move over to GCC
to make any real progress?

Re: Newbie question [message #144502 is a reply to message #144386]

Mon, 02 May 2005 18:51

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: ebasconp.gmail.com

The natural path you should follow to do Windows development using CDT is:

* Install CDT and Eclipse (quite obvious)
* Install Mingw32 (it is the GNU C++ compiler + the w32api header files
needed to write native Windows applications using g++) http://www.mingw.org
* Learn to use the gcc make tool. Eclipse allows to do "managed c++
projects" (creates automatically makefiles), but you do not have all the
control that you have writing your own makefiles.
* Learn to use a gcc compatible user interface like QT or wxWidgets, because
the Microsoft Foundation Classes cannot be compiled using mingw and to write
GUI applications using the Win32 SDK is a nightmare.

Best regards

Ernesto

"BT" <btabenkin@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:d53bbb$mju$1@news.eclipse.org...
> This is a real novice question, but is it realistic to now do windows
> developemnt with CDT? I use Visual C++ with Make files? What would be
> the idiot steps to get this working? Would I need to move over to GCC
> to make any real progress?

Re: Newbie question [message #144519 is a reply to message #144502]

Mon, 02 May 2005 23:30

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: btabenkin.verizon.net

Ernesto,

Thanks, we could probbaly get there. I read somewhere that MS was
realeaisng command ling compiler and debugger for free. Is there any
effort to do tool chains to support them?
ernesto bascón wrote:
> The natural path you should follow to do Windows development using CDT is:
>
> * Install CDT and Eclipse (quite obvious)
> * Install Mingw32 (it is the GNU C++ compiler + the w32api header files
> needed to write native Windows applications using g++) http://www.mingw.org
> * Learn to use the gcc make tool. Eclipse allows to do "managed c++
> projects" (creates automatically makefiles), but you do not have all the
> control that you have writing your own makefiles.
> * Learn to use a gcc compatible user interface like QT or wxWidgets, because
> the Microsoft Foundation Classes cannot be compiled using mingw and to write
> GUI applications using the Win32 SDK is a nightmare.
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Ernesto
>
>
>
> "BT" <btabenkin@verizon.net> wrote in message
> news:d53bbb$mju$1@news.eclipse.org...
>
>>This is a real novice question, but is it realistic to now do windows
>>developemnt with CDT? I use Visual C++ with Make files? What would be
>>the idiot steps to get this working? Would I need to move over to GCC
>>to make any real progress?
>
>
>

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