Igor Delovski Board

[delovski]

Turbo C was my first C compiler and my first IDE. Now, almost 20 years
later, I hear Turbo C is back:

Turbo C++ Explorer Homepage,
the fast and easy way to start C++ development today!

"Rapidly build ultra high performance native Win32 applications, Extensible
component model - Use included 200+ app components, build your own,
download free, or buy 3rd party components, Code faster with Live
Templates, Code Completion, Code Insight and Block Completion, Easily
connect to your data & Build industry standards based C/C++ applications!"

[Ike]

C/C++ development with the Eclipse Platform

"Get an overview of how to use the Eclipse Platform in your C/C++
development projects. Though Eclipse is mainly a Java ™ development
environment, its architecture ensures support for other programming
languages."

[delovski]

MacTech September '88: Lightspeed C 3.0

"Lightspeed C has jumped into hyperspace with their version 3.0 of their
popular C development system. THINK Technologies Division has upgraded
their Lightspeed C to version 3.0 due out by the time you read this. The
new version is a significant improvement in application development
containing support for Inside Macintosh I-V, 68881 and 68020 code
generation, precompiled headers, and a source level debugger!"

[delovski]

At JoS: Best RAD environments

"I like Delphi 5, its simplicity especially, but I want to do more with
databases, graphics, and I want to have more modern tools readily
available to me, like list boxes with icons in them, etc, etc."

[XNote]

Five Great Programmers Fonts

MonteCarlo, Triskweline, Proggy Square, ProFont, and Vera Bitstream.

[delovski]

Borland Dev Studio vs MS Vis. Studio

"Seriously, I think the advantage is ease of use. The drawbacks are, on
the C++ side, less standard conformance and less stability. I think it really
depends what kind of app you are going to develop."

[Ike]

JoS: IDE - greatest feature & wish list

"Backwards debugging - the ability to stop at a program breakpoint and
then do a step-by-step reversal of everything (at least in memory) that had
happened recently."

[delovski]

Let's Build a Compiler, by Jack Crenshaw

"This fifteen-part series, written from 1988 to 1995, is a non-technical
introduction to compiler construction. You can read the parts on-line or
download them in a ZIP file."

[delovski]

JoS: Still on VC6

"The IDE is dog slow, clearly making heavy use of lots of managed
components (...), and the debugger, whilst improved (...), is no massive
leap.
...
The compiler is about ten trillion times better. It's a lot more conformant,
and it feels like it's often (but not always) quicker."

[Ike]

JoS: Alternative IDE for Visual Studio 2005

"The performance problems discovered in VS2005, are mainly IDE
related. So, why not develop a plug-in for Eclipse solving this issue?"

[delovski]

CodeGuru: Benefits of VS2005 for native development

"I know that VS2005 introduces many new things, but that is not the
question here. Same code base, compiled with VS6 and VS2005, why do I
want to ship the VS2005 executable?"

[Ike]

cboard: IDEs and Resource Editors

"Here is what I have:

1) VC++ 2005 Express (no integrated resource editor)
2) Symantec Resource Editor
3) RC.HLP + RS32.HLP - comes with SRE"

[delovski]

Rick Schaut: BBEdit 8.5

"One of the features of CodeWarrior that I'd missed was the syntax
highlighting that the IDE applied to symbols that were defined within the
project. In fact, I hadn't realized just how much I'd come to rely on that
feature when writing new code until I started working with BBEdit and
XCode."

[delovski]

JoS: Before C++

"When I started working in the 90s, C++ is the main language used in
many shops. What was used before the 90s?"

[Ike]

functionx - Borland C++ Builder page

"This site is dedicated to Borland C++ Builder, the Visual Component Library,
and those of us who have come to love it, even to think that it is the best
thing since the Sneakers bar. We provide lessons, guides, and links on how
to take advantage of this finely defined programming environment."

Also, an electronic book on Borland C++ Builder programming, a book on C++
For Borland C++ Builder, articles on compiling a program using the Borland
C++ 5.5 free compiler and installing the Borland C++ compiler.

[delovski]

Programming and politics: XCode

"In some ways it's kind of ironic, but probably the thing that jumps out the
most in such a comparison is that VS and Eclipse both have a lot more eye
candy. They are more visually appealing programs, at least in my opinion.
XCode is a little more stripped down, and not just in the eye candy department."

[Jean Jacques]

Wiki: Apple Developer Tools

"Aside from their main developer tools Xcode and Interface Builder, Apple
also provides a number of other tools that aid software developers in creating
applications for the Macintosh platform."

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[delovski]

Digg: Basics of Compiler Design

"I have taught an undergraduate compilers course for over a decade. In the
last several years, I have used my own textbook 'Basics of Compiler Design'.
I have now decided to make this available online."

[Ike]

JoS: Drag-and-drop GUI builder vs. coding GUI's by hand

"Drag-and-drop is fast enough, but the large mess of checkboxes and property
fields in the IDE: it feels strange, almost like hunt-and-peck typing. I certainly
don't feel more productive."

[delovski]

linux.hr - C development? (CRO)

"Ne znam kakvo je tu stanje sa debugiranjem, nekakav vizualni debuger mi
je prioritet. Upravo instaliram kdevelop pa cu vidjeti kako to izgleda.
Bojanje koda i takve tricarije me u pravilu ne zanimaju."

[delovski]

Linux developers considering move to Eclipse

"When you're talking Linux development tools, chances are you're talking
about decades-old programming editors like vi and EMACS. These are fine
for an older generation of programmers, but today's developers, weaned
on Microsoft Visual Studio want integrated development environments."

[delovski]

Linux and CodeWarrior C/C++ IDE ?

"Does someone know other good professional C/C++ IDE which runs on all RedHat
distributions ? "

[delovski]

Slashdot: Comparing Visual Studio and Eclipse

"Getting started with Eclipse can be confusing. New concepts, such as plug-in
architecture, workspace-centric project structure, and automatic build can
seem counterintuitive at first. Without waxing too philosophical about IDE
design, this article presents the main differences between Visual Studio and
the Eclipse IDE."

[Ike]

JoS: In searching for the "native" C++ IDE for Linux...

"What would you guys suggest for mainly C++ (rarely PHP, HTML, XML) IDE
and/or editor for KDE? To clarify, for the sake of hardcore-ness and curiosity
I want for example to learn the details of using GDB and Make from GNU
toolchain, but from my initial research for editing in the graphical Linux
environment it is more practical to use an IDE like KDevelop for example?"

[delovski]

Ubuntu forums: What's your Favorite IDE?

"Though I like everything else about GNOME, I still am a 100% KDevelop fan!" !!??
...
"GEdit and ant or autoconf/automake depending on what language I'm programming in."

"Neither Gedit or Smultron are IDE's, though. I usually work in simple, syntax-highlighting
editors with language and API references open in Firefox or Safari and bash open to compile
and test. Quick and efficient."
...
"Anjuta is a really nice IDE, which I've grown to like better than KDevelop
(fo me, KDevelop is big and complicated)."
...
"Anjuta and Scite, both of them are based on Scintilla (correct me if i'm wrong)"
...
> I have been trying to get Anjuta on Ubuntu for ages. How did you do
> it? I can't see it on Synaptic and I 'm not sure how to compile it. So I've been
> using Bloodshed Developer on windows.

"Err.. sudo apt-get install anjuta. Make sure you have universe/multiverse installed btw."
...
"I've used Kdevelop back when I used Mandrake (the only distro I liked
coming from Windows), but now that I'm on Ubuntu I'm seeing if I can
get by without KDE. So I've tried Anjuta and I think I like the interface a
little better, and I'm hoping Anjuta 2.0 comes out soon (and is put into
Ubuntu)."
...
"I was also impressed by WideStudio a few weeks ago when I experimented with
Solaris. I recently saw there's a WS deb package for Ubuntu. Well worth a try."
...
"Anjuta and Bluefish"
...
"Got to be Anjuta, thought it looked dull (big thing when you're staring at it for hours)
but after installing gtk-qt to give it the KDE look i wouldn't use anything else."
...
"There is a new IDE call geany. It is a light weight IDE but I love it because it is sample."
...
"Code::Blocks is just the C/C++ IDE I have been searching for years. Cross-platform
programming (currently runs in Linux/Windows/*BSD) is the best for me. It's lightweight
yet very powerfull."
...
"... i found "Geany" what seems to be the fastest and simple... enough for
someone like me.. yet has all bells and whistles i wanted for an IDE."
...
"The issue is Anjuta not maintaining the inode of files when they're edited.
Instead it renames the file at the existing inode, and creates a new file with
the original name.

This causes all sorts of problems when editing and building Feisty and Gutsy
kernels out-of-tree (OOT), since an OOT build creates hard links to the source
files in the tree."

[delovski]

Glade - a User Interface Designer for GTK+ and GNOME

"Glade is a RAD tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces
for the GTK+ toolkit and the GNOME desktop environment, released under
the GNU GPL License.

The user interfaces designed in Glade are saved as XML, and by using the
libglade library these can be loaded by applications dynamically as needed."

[delovski]

Slashdot: GCC Compiler Finally Supplanted by PCC?

"The leaner, lighter, faster, and most importantly, BSD Licensed, Compiler PCC
has been imported into OpenBSD's CVS and NetBSD's pkgsrc. The compiler
is based on the original Portable C Compiler by S. C. Johnson, written in the
late 70's. Even though much of the compiler has been rewritten, some of the
basics still remain. It is currently not bug-free, but it compiles on x86 platform,
and work is being done on it to take on GCC's job."

[delovski]

Building Code::Blocks from SVN on Ubuntu 6.06

"First you will need to install the necessary packages to build Code::Blocks,
Create a build directory and download the svn files, Build Code::Blocks from
the svn files, Build and install Code::Blocks using ./configure, make & make
install method, Building and installing Code::Blocks using the dpkg-buildpack-
age method"

[delovski]

OpenLDev, by Andrew Krause

"OpenLDev is a graphical front-end to various Linux development tools such
as gcc, autotools and make. Most Integrated Development Environments (IDE),
are cumbersome and confusing to use, but OpenLDev strives to provide an
easy-to-use interface that is both productive for experts and simple for begin-
ners."

[delovski]

JoS: Whats your favorite cheap / small C developmenmt environment

"Whats your favorite cheap / small C developmenmt environment (cheap
and small takes out Visual Studio and the likes)."

[Ike]

JoS: Visual Studio equivilent on linux

"I've switched to Linux (Ubuntu) about a month ago, doing C++ GUI work.
I've evaluated Netbeans, Eclipse, KDevelop and Codeblocks. I'm sticking with
Code::blocks now and it's great."

[delovski]

reddit - CodeLite, an open source, cross platform C/C++ IDE

"CodeLite is a powerful open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++
programming languages (build and tested on Windows XP SP3, (K)Ubuntu
8.04, and Mac OSX 10.5.2). CodeLite is distributed under the terms of the
GPL license."

[XNote]

Slashdot - Looking at Changes in the Newest GCC

"With GCC 4 comes a new optimization framework (and new intermediate
code representation), new target and language support, and a variety of
new attributes and options. Get to know the major new features and their
benefits in this article."

[delovski]

SO - Making android development less resource heavy!

"Things that I have noticed: - Running the emulator eats up one of my cores
entirely!! On an average it is using 40-45% of CPU processing power. It tak-
es 7-9 min to start the emulator so I have to keep it running all the time and
even on a running emulator it takes a couple of minutes for my simple apps
to get loaded and run."

[Ike]

reddit.com - Symbian, a post-mortem (long, technical)

"Oh the joy of the Symbian SDK. I can't imagine a worse environment to
work in. It was fun to debug build problems in the Windows / perl / Cygwin /
makefile mess."

[delovski]

thenextweb - Microsoft releases tool for converting old software to modern Windows 10 apps

"At Build 2016, Microsoft announced the Desktop App Converter, a tool that
would allow developers to convert classic Windows programs into modern
Universal Windows Platform(UWP) apps.

A preview version is now available to download. As expected, it supports both
.NET and Win32 apps, which it can convert to AppX packages that support any
UWP API."

[delovski]

Carpe diem - Autoconf Tutorial Part-1

"Autoconf is not only a build system, it also does many system compatibility
checks. Does your operating system support memory-mapped file? Does your
environment has X11? The standard autoconf already support a wide variety of
checks, and there are 500 more in Autoconf Archive. It's the defacto standard
build standard for building small and large linux/unix programs."

[Ike]

so - How to write a Makefile with separate source and header directories?

"Following this tutorial...

I have 2 source files and 1 header file. I want to have them in separate
directories like in the tutorial.

.
├── include
│ └── hellomake.h
├── Makefile
└── src
. ├── hellofunc.c
. └── hellomake.c

fatal error: no input files"

[Ike]

so - Download and install visual studio 2008

"Visual Studio 2008: (3,30 GB)

MSDN Library 2008: (2,15 GB)

To upgrade from trial version to Pro version, check: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246600%28VS.80%29.aspx"