Hi,

I have recently enrolled in some classes for software engineering that require the use of GCC and a Linux box to compile and debug C/C++ code. At this point I am very familiar with the Microsoft way of doing things in Visual Studio so I am obviously going to be lost if I can't find some good advice.

I do have some Linux experience with Ubuntu but I am thinking about switching to Red Hat. Is there a preferred text editor/debugger that is commonly used to develop apps using the GCC under either of these platforms?

vi

I was kidding, sort of.

Check out Eclipse and KDevelop and the frontends to gdb and family.

If you do switch to redhat try Fedora 7.

Actually I would recommend both Ubuntu and Fedora, you can have both on the same system and dual boot.

GL

I'm actually going to stick with Ubuntu for now. The instructor recommended using a simple text editor to develop. Perhaps vi wouldn't be such a bad way to go. I would really like to learn that method of programming because it is very pure. However, as a beginner I don't know how easy that will be. I wrote a lot of assembly in my undergrad EE program but we used KEIL and it is a good IDE so it still didn't really give me the gcc rundown.

If you have any tips or know where a guide to development with vi is located please let me know.

I am downloading kdevelop right now and also mandriva with KDE included in an iso. Thinking I might try to use mandriva with a live cd and see how that goes. I couldn't get eclipse to work properly for C++ development. It seems I downloaded the wrong version (3.1) and tried to upgrade but got errors for updating using the manager. I then successfully downloaded the later 3.3 version and tried to update again and still no dice. I then tried to do an "apt-get remove eclipse" to wipe clean and try everything over again and it still didn't work.

Seems kinda lame that I couldn't even get to the point of editing a c file in eclipse. I'm starting to feel scared.

eclipse is difficult sometimes, you should have better luck with Kdevelop

Check out:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en [...] gle+Search

for vi info



remember you can also:

man vi

man man

man gcc

info gcc

editer: vim
http://www.vim.org/

ide: eclipse with cdt plugin (C/C++ Development Toolkit，CDT)
www.eclipse.org/cdt/

in fc:
yum install eclipse vim

Heh, well right now in my computer microarchitecture class, they are asking us to do some coding to make an assembler for a theoretical architecture, and it has to compile under gcc and run in a Unix system. So, this means that I am giving vim and gcc plenty of love right now ;D

I do miss the nice graphical debuggers with their breakpoints and single step execution and listing the contents of variables and what not, but at the same time I am learning how to be a hardcore linux user/programmer

I just wanted to show you that you aren't alone in this kstrat, and best of luck to you.

-Zorak

Nano

Nano FTW My fav little editor. Reminds me of the days I use to play with C64

With the exception of syntax coloring