Cross Platform Programming

Sergei Steshenko · 01-26-2009, 04:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Ace Blackwell

Well I've decided to try eclipse. I have it installed and of course it works great in Linux. It installed fine in Windows as well. I installed Cywin in Windows with gcc packages installed. The problem I have now is, how do I link the eclipse with gcc from Cywin? I run a simple program (YO World) but it won't build due to some make file issue. I believe its because it's not getting access to gcc. The reason I believe this is it is the same set of errors I was getting before I installed cywin and gcc.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
Ace

I am not a Windows guy, but I think under Windows you need either a Microsoft compiler (without the Visual Studio GUI AFAIK the compiler, i.e. the pure command line one, is free as in "beer") or MinGW.

CYGWIN is not for native Windows applications, it's for UNIX-like environment under Windows.

indienick · 01-26-2009, 09:41 AM

I would suggest looking at the CDT module ("package"?) for Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org/home/categori...p?category=ide

jiml8 · 01-26-2009, 09:51 AM

Personally, I don't try to compile for cygwin because that requires any user system to install cygwin. I like cygwin but I don't want to force my users to use it.