Re: [Geany] Geany as Windoze noob's learning tool

2012-08-09 Thread John Yeung
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Oliver Krystal wrote: > > On 8/9/2012 8:41 AM, Ma Xiaojun wrote: >> >> It sounds like you are unhappy with MinGW. What's the exact problem you >> met? > > It helps to be able to get a functioning install :) Have you tried TDM-GCC? http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/ It's

Re: [Geany] Geany as Windoze noob's learning tool

2012-08-09 Thread Oliver Krystal
On 8/9/2012 8:41 AM, Ma Xiaojun wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Oliver Krystal wrote: Why is it so inconvient to use the @Drive trick? If you check out the windows paths, they're all specified starting with a drive letter. Linux paths start with root . . . Well, @Drive trick works pe

Re: [Geany] Geany as Windoze noob's learning tool

2012-08-09 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Oliver Krystal wrote: > Why is it so inconvient to use the @Drive trick? If you check out the > windows paths, they're all specified starting with a drive letter. Linux > paths start with root . . . Well, @Drive trick works perfectly if we put Geany and MinGW in a

Re: [Geany] Geany as Windoze noob's learning tool

2012-08-09 Thread Oliver Krystal
Why is it so inconvient to use the @Drive trick? If you check out the windows paths, they're all specified starting with a drive letter. Linux paths start with root . . . For this to work, I (or someone else picking up Geany Portable) would have to distribute MinGW with Geany Portable. And

Re: [Geany] Geany as Windoze noob's learning tool

2012-08-09 Thread Ma Xiaojun
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Matthew Brush wrote: > Not sure about bundling since Geany tends to stay away from extra > dependencies and complexity. Correct me if I'm wrong. Geany's default build configuration for C/C++ is to call GCC. So it's natural to provide a MinGW bundled option I guess.

Re: [Geany] Geany as Windoze noob's learning tool

2012-08-09 Thread Matthew Brush
On 12-08-09 12:01 AM, Ma Xiaojun wrote: Unlike *nix, there is no GCC in PATH even MinGW is installed. Configuring PATH manually can be challenging for noob. So, I wonder, can Geany people publish Windoze releases bundled with MinGW? Or, can I add path to Geany Portable that is relative to `pwd`

Re: [Geany] two issues with 1.22

2012-08-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Colomban Wendling wrote: >> I always press Okay and apparently no markers are being loaded. >> However, on a subsequent Geany restart the same question pops up. > > This is an issue (or not?) with a plugin, not Geany core. IIRC the > plugin is GeanyNumberedBookmar

Re: [Geany] Geany as Windoze noob's learning tool

2012-08-09 Thread Lex Trotman
Hi, The provision of a complete windows programming tool set isn't really in the Geany mission statement. It would add to the windows build complexities and it would be entirely up to the person who supports windows builds to decide if they have enough time to create and support this extension.

Re: [Geany] Geany as Windoze noob's learning tool

2012-08-09 Thread Ma Xiaojun
I forgot to include the need of typical Windoze noob: One-shot installation No extra configuration before "hello, world" No need to create annoying projects (So I choose Geany, rather than Code::Blocks or Eclipse) ___ Geany mailing list Geany@uvena.de ht

[Geany] Geany as Windoze noob's learning tool

2012-08-09 Thread Ma Xiaojun
Unlike *nix, there is no GCC in PATH even MinGW is installed. Configuring PATH manually can be challenging for noob. So, I wonder, can Geany people publish Windoze releases bundled with MinGW? Or, can I add path to Geany Portable that is relative to `pwd` rather than @Drive Thank you in advance!