[GRLUG] C and C++ programing environment

[Michael Mol]

On 4/8/07, Jordan Hudson <jodanlime at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all, I am a student at Muskegon community college, and I started
> taking some programming classes. I was wondering if anybody would be able to
> suggest a programming environment that is somewhat similar to Microsoft
> Visual C++. I need 3 things:
>
> 1. Works on Linux, mac, and winders

As in, the programs themselves work, or the IDE works?

For 100-200-level college courses, Programs limited to console
activity (iostream and the like) should compile equally well under gcc
or Visual Studio, so you should be able to drop the .cpp file from
your Linux IDE into a barebones Visual Studio project, and compile it
there. (Don't forget to either create or disable stdafx.h in Visual
Studio, though.)

If you're compiling with gcc on a Mac, the same principle holds.

>
> 2. can compile and test program in environment

So you're looking for an Integrated Development Environment, or IDE.
If you're looking for something fairly close to Visual Studio, I'd
suggest you try Anjuta or KDevelop.  The project files won't be
compatible, but the .cpp and .h files can be, if you're careful to
limit yourself to standards-compliant code.

>
> 3. either free or cheap, preferably open source

Anjuta and KDevelop are the only GUI-based IDEs I'm familiar with, and
they're both free software.

>
> thank you to anybody who has any information!

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