Ah yes, MinGW, I remember now. It would have been a lot more overhead than Cygwin and at the time I just wanted to do a few simple command line applications. I was thinking about native Windows applications but I didn't get past the research stage.
Thank you very much for elaborating. On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 9:32 PM Scott Palmer <swpal...@gmail.com> wrote: > The other option is MinGW, both it and Cygwin are *NEVER* used by > professional developers on Windows. > > They don’t work with the Windows SDK but instead attempt to supply their > own version of Windows header files. > Both options rely on awkward hacks to make Windows appear to have some > more unix-like APIs. As a result you often end up with writing code that > is very much not the way you would typically do things on Windows. This > results in half-assed ports of native bits that never quite align with what > Windows users expect. > Those tools may be suitable for students to experiment with, but they just > don’t cut it for writing proper native code for Windows. > > Proper C/C++ support on Windows means using a native Windows toolset. > Visual C++, or perhaps Intel’s compiler. Or at least something that can > compile and link with actual binaries and headers from the official > Windows SDK. > > Gradle’s cpp-library plugin properly uses Windows tools on Windows instead > of trying to make Windows look like unix and only working with an awkward > compatibility layer. > > Sorry… rant over. > > Scott > > On Sep 27, 2019, at 1:56 PM, Alonso Del Arte <alonso.dela...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Scott wrote: > > > Existing NetBeans C/C++ support on Windows is not very practical. > Bordering on almost unusable actually. (It requires use of a toolset that > is virtually never used on Windows for native development, is incompatible > with Windows SDKs, and difficult to maintain and configure.) > > For what it's worth, I've had no problem with simple C++ console > applications in NetBeans 8.2 under Windows 8.2 (neither of those are going > to get upgraded). I went with Cygwin64, I remember there was another option > but I don't remember why I rejected it. I've found Java AWT and Swing to be > quite adequate for when I need a GUI. > > I have yet to try to do anything with C++ on my Mac, on which I now have > both NetBeans 8.2 and 11.1. Worst case scenario if I ever need to work on > C++ on my Mac, I can probably use GCC on the command line if XCode won't > cut it. > > Al > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 9:51 AM Scott Palmer <swpal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Would be great to see C/C++ support via Gradle’s 'cpp-library’ plugin. A >> smooth Java + JNI project setup would be welcome along with it. >> >> Existing NetBeans C/C++ support on Windows is not very practical. >> Bordering on almost unusable actually. (It requires use of a toolset that >> is virtually never used on Windows for native development, is incompatible >> with Windows SDKs, and difficult to maintain and configure.) >> >> On Sep 27, 2019, at 4:25 AM, Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >> Yes, that is called the Apache Software Foundation. >> >> Gj >> >> On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 at 09:24, Ulf Zibis <ulf.zi...@cosoco.de> wrote: >> >>> >>> Am 26.09.19 um 23:02 schrieb Peter Kovacs: >>> > I do not understand the question. Can you elaborate? >>> >>> My understanding of "donation" was, that there is a kind of crowdfunding >>> to support the C/C++ plugin. >>> >>> -Ulf >>> >> >> > > -- > Alonso del Arte > Author at SmashWords.com > <https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/AlonsoDelarte> > Musician at ReverbNation.com <http://www.reverbnation.com/alonsodelarte> > > > -- Alonso del Arte Author at SmashWords.com <https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/AlonsoDelarte> Musician at ReverbNation.com <http://www.reverbnation.com/alonsodelarte>
