wich IDE/Compiler/etc. do you use?

ShinyRayquaza · Post by **ShinyRayquaza** » Mon May 07, 2007 4:44 pm

the question is in the title.

i would like to know wich IDE the most use and then i choose wich i will use.

so... can you tell me your experiences with the different IDE's?

Post by **betajaen** » Mon May 07, 2007 4:46 pm

I think most of the Windows users, including me; use Visual Studio 2005 Express. It's free and Ogre works perfectly with it.

ShinyRayquaza · Post by **ShinyRayquaza** » Mon May 07, 2007 4:51 pm

do you use the visual c++ IDE or with an other IDE, like Code::blocks or something else?

Post by **xavier** » Mon May 07, 2007 4:57 pm

While you *can* use the MSVC compilier with another IDE, why would you? Use the Visual Studio IDE and get on with your coding. I have to confess, I don't know why you are agonizing over this -- it seems you have an actual 'other question' that you are not asking here.

ShinyRayquaza · Post by **ShinyRayquaza** » Mon May 07, 2007 5:06 pm

xavier wrote:While you *can* use the MSVC compilier with another IDE, why would you? Use the Visual Studio IDE and get on with your coding. I have to confess, I don't know why you are agonizing over this -- it seems you have an actual 'other question' that you are not asking here.

i have no other question...
i asked for the IDE because in the wiki is a tutorial with setting up visual c++ with code::blocks... so i wanted to know wich would be better.

Aladrin · Post by **Aladrin** » Mon May 07, 2007 5:28 pm

They are using the Codeblock IDE with the Visual++ C compiler. Not the Visual++ C IDE. The person obviously prefers the Codeblocks IDE but wants to use the VC compiler. Personally, when on Windows, I prefer Visual Studio. (A friend bought the full version for me for helping him with a project. I'd use the free one otherwise, as they aren't that much different.)

On Linux, I use the KDevelop IDE.

Post by **xavier** » Mon May 07, 2007 6:13 pm

ShinyRayquaza wrote:
xavier wrote:While you *can* use the MSVC compilier with another IDE, why would you? Use the Visual Studio IDE and get on with your coding. I have to confess, I don't know why you are agonizing over this -- it seems you have an actual 'other question' that you are not asking here.
i have no other question...
i asked for the IDE because in the wiki is a tutorial with setting up visual c++ with code::blocks... so i wanted to know wich would be better.

You'll also find instructions (or at least a link to the MSDN instructions) on properly setting up the Express version of Visual C++ 2005. Most of the people on this forum who develop on Windows use some version of Visual C++ (including the Project Team)...either Visual C++ 8 (2005) -- this is the "preferred" version now -- or Visual C++ 7.1 (2003).

For free, as mentioned, the Visual C++ 2005 Express works just fine. I personally use Visual Studio 2005 Standard (retail) but I got that free as well from watching some webcast thing a few months ago.

oddrose · Post by **oddrose** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 2:06 pm

sorry if this is an old topic to drag up...but i must ask...

do you, (like with Visual Studio 2005) have to send an .msi with redistributable files with your application if you are using codeBlocks?

Project5 · Post by **Project5** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:46 pm

You don't need to send a redistributable with VC 2005 if you build your app with manifests set to allow isolation. Look on msdn for 'deploying using xcopy'.

--Ben

FlightOfHallu · Post by **FlightOfHallu** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:01 pm

I use Emacs 22.1.1 along with ECB code browser. I like it because I can use ECB to mange code browsing, while still giving me that emacy-ness that I love so much.

Lately I've been thinking about using Eclipse, but I'm too lazy to set it up right now.

Before completely switching over to Linux I ran VC 6.0. This was 4 years ago, when I first started university. Somewhere along the line I turned into a give me Linux or give me death guy... Hmm yeah, how did that happen?

Let's wait for the VIM guy to show up and scare all of us out of the room with his crazy VIM-fu.

Post by **jacmoe** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:28 pm

To answer you question:

You need to distribute mingwm10.dll with your application. And that's it.
Except for the Ogre DLLs, of course.

Post by **jacmoe** » Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:30 pm

If you're using the Ogre C::B SDK, you can find the DLL in the bin directory.

oddrose · Post by **oddrose** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 3:44 pm

Project5 wrote:You don't need to send a redistributable with VC 2005 if you build your app with manifests set to allow isolation. Look on msdn for 'deploying using xcopy'.

--Ben

Are there any negative sides of this?