Subject: Re: Newbie Help / Collapsible Outline Status Report
From: Pierre Abbat (phma@oltronics.net)
Date: Sun Jun 04 2000 - 06:58:16 CDT
>> Background: Over the next several months, I anticipate switching to
>> Linux. Even so, I am used to working in an IDE with a debugger. (From
>> Turbo Pascal days and, more recently, Visual Basic.) I dread using a
>> command line debugger which I understand gdb is. I think that for the
>> forseeable future I'd like to debug in VC++ with its' integrated
>> debugger, object browser, etc.
>>
>> Is that a terrible mistake? Will I be able to effectively develop
>> within VC++, or should I switch to gcc? Will I be able to make
>> effective patches from VC++ and the "windows" tools?
>>
>
>Use the tools you know to help anyway you can. Cygwin stuff provides for
>the tools you may will need (ie. patch, diff, make) outside of the
>compiler/linker/debugger. The only thing missing is help. For that just
>ask.
Get Kdevelop and kdbg. They're fully GUI IDE and debugger which run make and
gdb in the background.
phma
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