Re: development on windows

[Bertalan Fodor]

Now I'm running lilybuntu in Sun VirtualBox from my pendrive. Successfully
built LilyPond, now I start playing with kdevelop.

Thanks for the fun.

Bert

> Graham Percival wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 04:44:30PM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
>>> On 6/13/09 11:39 PM, "Bertalan Fodor" <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm sure there are tools which would make it easier for us, simple not
>>>> hackers, but software engineers, grown up on Microsoft Visual Studio
>>>> end
>>>> Eclipse. I remember that at university I did use some ide for linux
>>>> cpp
>>>> development. That's why I was seeking recommendation.
>>> The standard GNU answer is to use emacs to integrate your compiler,
>>> debugger, etc.  You can open a directory in emacs and then open any
>>> file
>>> from that directory, so it's useful for browsing the source, as well.
>>
>> That's not really what I'd recommend for windows people, though.
>> I'd say two things:
>>
>> 1)  Since this image will install a complete linux distro, you can
>> install any Linux GUI programming IDE you want.
>> (we should specify this in the CG where we discuss the windows
>> iso)
>>
>> 2)  I don't know what the current favorite fancy IDE is, although
>> I'm fairly certain that Eclipse runs on Linux.  I'm not certain if
>> that would actually be good for LilyPond, though -- does it
>> support C++ and makefiles?  IIRC eclipse is for java stuff.
>>
>> (again, I'm happy to dump whatever suggestions people throw at me
>> in the CG)
>>
>
> I've never worked on C++ files, but I opened one up in Geany and
> it had nice syntax highlighting plus a "build" menu with lots of
> options, including targets for make, compiling, building, etc.
> Geany's my favorite GUI editor and it's available for both Windows
> and Linux.  A developer would be better able to judge its worth as
> an IDE, but I like it very much and it's easy to install from the
> repos.
>
> BTW I've been fiddling with my Lilybuntu virtual machine and
> finally figured out how to make it go fullscreen (previously I'd
> only been able to view it in a 800x600 window--very annoying).
> It's a bit of a trick to make this work on a virtual Linux machine
> in Sun's VirtualBox.  Once you get it set up, though, it's really
> amazing.  It's a matter of successfully installing "Guest
> Additions."  I don't know if you want to get into VirtualBox
> issues in the CG, especially since others might use different
> virtualization tools, but getting it set up properly will make a
> big difference in the usability of the virtual machine.  Once it's
> fullscreen it looks as if it's the real OS on your computer.  Very
> nice.  I now have my Windows VMs set up this way (much easier on
> the Windows VMs to set up Guest Additions) and it's excellent for
> testing.
>
> Jon
>
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