On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Rodrigo F Oliveira wrote:
A friend of mine is thinking about give up with windows and come to linux
but he has some doubts and I couldn't help him with them.
He became very impressed with the look of kde and with the resources of
mandrake in general. We decided to look for a good programing environment.
I showed him gcc and g++ and compiled some of my own programs but I am
afraid he was expecting something more. He is used to work with VC++,
C++Builder, Visual Basic and therefore he is looking for a environment with
a compiler, a debugger etc. (everything integrated) with a good GUI. I told
him that I didn't know anything like that but I could ask for something in
some mailing lists.
I received some messages and in one of them there was an advice: "Take a
look at Kdevelop ( http://samuel.cs.uni-potsdam.de/~smeier/kdevelop_new/)".
Well, we went there and became very impressed with the snapshots and with
the texts explaining all the capabilities of the program. We downloaded the
0.4 version and the programs that are needed to have kdevelop running. Here
our problems started. First, we couldn't compile any of these programs and
any of them are provided in rpm except kdevelop.
I couldn't get Glimpse to compile either (and didn't try any of the others).
If I've had one big problem with M6, it's programs I download routinely failing
to compile.
I am looking for someone who is working with kdevelop and could give us
some tips about having these programs compiled and working fine in Mandrake
6.0. If someone is working with any other development environment (with a
good GUI) and would like to point it as an alternative I would be grateful.
best regards,
Rodrigo
There are a few IDE's available for download at Linuxberg (go to
www.linuxberg.com and pick a mirror). I'm not much of a programmer myself so I
don't know how they compare with each other, but I think Code Crusador is one
of the more popular IDE's.
-Tom
