Re: Gnat cross compiling FreeBSD to Win32 ?

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

On Sat, 11 May 2002 21:09:12 -0400, DPH wrote:
> 
> Not to be argumentative, but please describe.  Just take debugging for
> example.
> 
[snipped description of debugging in Borland C++]

GVD -- http://libre.act-europe.fr/gvd/

I didn't say that an IDE can't have advantages, I said that on Windows
you feel very desperate if you don't have an IDE as you lack a lot of
very nice tools. You can of course use cygwin in Windows, but at least
my experience with this is that it is more cumbersome than working in
Linux directly. There wouldn't be a drive to make IDE's for Linux if
there are no advantages.

As you can see here: http://freshmeat.net/browse/65/?topic_id=65
There are 112 tries to develop some sort of IDEs.

> So, anyway, I've thought of going to Linux as described, but have
> dreaded it as a step backward with having to deal with a command line
> again (I hate that...)  Of course, now there's Borland Builder 6 for
> Linux, and GPS is coming for Ada.  Wheee...  

You don't have to use the command line so much as you think. Here is a
screenshot of my Vim editor with a simple IDE that utilises a these
command line arguments for you. 

   http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/Ada95/vim-with-IDE.png

I can use this in windows too, but then I would have to install things
like cygwin to get it to work.

I recommend that you install Linux (Choose Debian as this is much easier
distribution to work with as soon as you have gotten it installed. It is
a bit harder to install than other distributions though) on a machine
and try it a bit while you still use Windows to get used to it.

Preben
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