Help deciding what EDK to chose - OS Debian ideally C++

Hi everyone,

The question is simple I want to start programming onto linux specially Debian. Which one is the best and most supported (documentation)? I have done quite a lot about this application on Microsoft Visual C++, So at the moment I have been looking at compiler I could keep doing C++, I have came across eclipse I've just download but I have not done much on it.

What I can foreseen about my application,

Software
GPS reading NMEA
Display Mapping
Chatting facility
MySQL interface
I am king of using c++ some time thinking of Java but I never done any jave programming (but it will be able to run my application in any platform, right?

Hardware
I want to make it portable, I was thinking the final code I could use in PDA or old PC, something I could run in a big flash memory (trying to eliminate the hard drive)

Could you please give your input about the Hardware and Software? It would be great if you justify your input,

Thank you your help,

If you want to learn the standard C++, there's always The Stroustrup (3rd edition). Other than that IMHO I don't think there's a "canonical" source for C++ documentation.

However, here's a few I'd recommend and use regularly:

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/
http://www.cppreference.com/wiki/
The Standard Template Library (STL) http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/
GNU Compiler Collection documentation: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/
http://cppannotations.sourceforge.net/ (good for the transition from C to C++)

This should give you a fairly good background for console applications, libraries, kernel module, etc.

For GUI design, it depends on the API. Qt is a popular one, and is the base of KDE (which is a very common/standard environment in Debian). Take some time to explore:

http://doc.trolltech.com/
http://api.kde.org/

In KDE, the usual IDE is called KDevelop. It has a fairly good integrated documentation, and can fetch it from other packages for search purposes for example.

Well, I'm sure other can suggest equally good/better sources.

Have fun!

Eclipse won the Linuxquestions members choice award for 2008 in the IDE category

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...e-year-695656/

EDK means embedded development kit, right?
If so, I wonder what fraction of the people who might answer your question will even know what you meant.

Originally Posted by PeterUK I am king of using c++ some time thinking of Java but I never done any jave programming (but it will be able to run my application in any platform, right?

I haven't done any embedded development for several years. When I last did so, many platforms could be programmed only in C, not in C++ and certainly not in Java. And when I did so I went for platform specific performance not portability and I programmed almost exclusively in assembler.

I'm sure that has changed a lot in recent years. Microsoft has succeeded in forcing C# into a significant fraction of the embedded market while others have improved the availability of C++ and Java.

But I wouldn't be surprised if C is still the most widely available language for embedded programming.

As for Linux software used in support of embedded development, sorry I haven't a clue. I only used Windows and not recently.