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What Would Be A Good Free Software Development Package For Windows?

I am mostly interested in C++ programming for windows. I would like an easy to use debugger and an ability to compile open source software.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, December 24th, 2009 at 4:52 pm and is filed under Computers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “What Would Be A Good Free Software Development Package For Windows?”

  1. Microsoft’s Visual Studio Express Edition is a free download, and is what most Windows-specific developers use, and the built-in debugger is really nice (haven’t used many others, so I can’t compare)http://www.microsoft.com/express/downloa…
    Check out the creators club -http://creators.xna.com/en-US/
    There are a lot of other tools, most free stuff is based on a cygwin + gcc install (cygwin is a unix-like command line for Windows), and MinGW is pretty popular for gcc amongst oss folks (minGW adds a layer that lets cygwin programs use Windows calls). The local Community College uses this setup along with a decent front-end for some of their classes.
    Usually if I’m doing a short console program, I’ll just write it in a text editor (either Notepad++ or cygwin-based emacs) and compile it command line with cygwin’s gcc. If I’m doing something more complex, I’ll use Visual Studio. http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html – mingw front-end that local CC uses.http://www.mingw.orghttp://www.cygwin.com – when you install, either do the “full” install, or a custom install and go in and enable all the development packages.
    If you are looking at a specific project, check whether they use CMake – it can target either one pretty easily. If they aren’t using CMake, look for a .sln file in their source tree – that would mean they’re using Visual Studio.