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MinGW, cool!!
Jingle
3 Jan, 2008 - 05:49 PM
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so I downloaded MinGW. I love it !!
it is so small I have it on my jumpdrive and it takes up almost nothing.
also I found MinGWhas a sweet IDE very simlilar to visual studios.
of cours you have to download it seperetly you cant make things to easy.
I have noticed that it is very slow though. it takes way longer than any other compiler I use.
I was just wondering why it is so slow?
I am using the windows version so that might be why.
at first i thought it might be because I was using it on my jumpdrive.
so I instaled it on the computer and pulled my jumpdrive out and it was a little faster.
but still pretty slow.


I am curius to know what seems to be peoples favorit compilers and why?

sorry for the stuped spelling mistake Tom thanks for catching it

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3 Jan, 2008 - 06:06 PM
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I've never heard of that before. Do you mean MinGW (the Windows port of GCC)?

I use Eclipse as my IDE for pretty much everything. It's cross platform, has code auto completion, and a huge repository of plugins that add things ranging from language support (I have C/C++, Java, Lisp, Perl, PHP, Lua, and Fortran support installed) to extra features (comes with CVS support out of the box, but there are plugins for SVN, GIT, etc).

By the way, it's worth noting that compilers an IDE's are not the same thing.
* IDE = Integrated Development Environment, typically a text editor with syntax highlighting, project management, and a "Compile" button.
* Compiler compiles your code. wink2.gif

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never mind i have fixed the slow it is still a might slower than xcode and visual studios but barly enoph to notice.
so pretty much it is just awsom lol!!

QUOTE(Jingle @ 3 Jan, 2008 - 06:49 PM) *

so I downloaded MnGwin. I love it !!
it is so small I have it on my jumpdrive and it takes up almost nothing.
also I found MnGwin has a sweet IDE very simlilar to visual studios.
of cours you have to download it seperetly you cant make things to easy.
I have noticed that it is very slow though. it takes way longer than any other compiler I use.
I was just wondering why it is so slow?
I am using the windows version so that might be why.
at first i thought it might be becaus i was using it on my jumpdrive.
so I instaled it on the computer and pulled my jumpdrive out and it was a little faster.
but still pretty slow.


I am curius to know what seems to be peoples favorit compilers and why?
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3 Jan, 2008 - 06:22 PM
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Sounds like you're talking about MinGW as the compiler, Jingle. But what's the actual IDE you're using? Dev-C++ is one that's pretty frequently seen on here, and it's bundled with MinGW. Pretty common for beginning windows C++ programming.

I use Eclipse for most stuff as well. A bit of a resource hog on lower-powered machines, but that's okay. I've also taken to using Notepad++ and command-line compiling as well.

@Tom9729, what do you use for a compiler with Eclipse? MinGW, Cygwin's gcc, or something else?

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QUOTE(jjhaag @ 3 Jan, 2008 - 07:22 PM) *

Sounds like you're talking about MinGW as the compiler, Jingle. But what's the actual IDE you're using? Dev-C++ is one that's pretty frequently seen on here, and it's bundled with MinGW. Pretty common for beginning windows C++ programming.

I use Eclipse for most stuff as well. A bit of a resource hog on lower-powered machines, but that's okay. I've also taken to using Notepad++ and command-line compiling as well.

@Tom9729, what do you use for a compiler with Eclipse? MinGW, Cygwin's gcc, or something else?



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3 Jan, 2008 - 06:48 PM
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Haven't used it, but I may check it out - looks decent enough.
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QUOTE(jjhaag @ 3 Jan, 2008 - 07:22 PM) *

@Tom9729, what do you use for a compiler with Eclipse? MinGW, Cygwin's gcc, or something else?

GCC on Linux.
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So we can use eclipse for C++ ? Right ?


Is it light ? if so I might install it smile.gif

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4 Jan, 2008 - 10:41 AM
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You can us Eclipse for C++ using the C++ plugin.
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QUOTE(k00ldude47 @ 4 Jan, 2008 - 11:26 AM) *

So we can use eclipse for C++ ? Right ?


Is it light ? if so I might install it smile.gif

Eclipse is a very nice IDE, but I don't know if I would consider it "light" compared to others.

You can use Eclipse for pretty much any language (through plugins).

On their site they provide several "distributions", each is preloaded with a language plugin.

Eclipse CDT (probably what you're looking for) comes with the C/C++ plugin and development tools. There's also Eclipse JDT (Java support).

Eclipse can be downloaded here.

Plugins can be found here.

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4 Jan, 2008 - 05:32 PM
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if small is what you want MinGW is great
bolth the compiler and the IDE take about 75 Megabytes
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Im using MinGW for compiling Qt on windows. It works great. I've never heard of a IDE for it though, might check it out.
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