[ale] C Compiler for Linux

[Ron Frazier]

Thanks for the links.  Saving them for future reference.

Ron

On 6/24/2011 6:24 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Good choices! People can make entire careers just writing make files :-)
>
> http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html
> and the best intro to vim is in vim itself. Pop up a shell and just 
> type vimtutor
>
> There are a gazillion vim plugins (adds to the .vimrc file or literal 
> 'load on demand' tools) that can make things better or just clutter 
> the screen. One of the most useful ones I use is screen splitting so I 
> can have two files visible at once.
> http://vim.runpaint.org/navigation/splitting-screen/
>
> FLTK is an easy and light gui tool kit. wx is bigger and cross 
> platform. QT is bigger still and also cross platform.
>
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Ron Frazier 
> <atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com <mailto:atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi Rich,
>
>     Even though we've discussed some of this on the phone, I thought
>     I'd share it with the group.
>
>     I've been threatening to relearn programming for 15 years, and I'm
>     hoping to actually carry out the threat.  15 years ago, I
>     programmed in Clipper, a C like database language.  I posted a
>     thread a few months back on this list talking about developing in
>     C#.  However, the people here convinced me that C++ would be
>     better.  I now hope to plow through the book "Programming
>     Principles and Practice Using C++" by Bjarne Stroustrup (the
>     inventor of C++).  I'm hoping to do cross platform development. 
>     I'm going to use Visual C++ Express on Windows, which is free.  On
>     Linux, I've hit on the GCC compiler, as suggested by others.  I
>     don't know how to use the make system, at this point, but
>     compiling small programs with a few source files seems to be very
>     simple.  I believe you can go through this entire book without an
>     IDE.  I know that the gedit editor in Ubuntu does syntax
>     highlighting and auto indention for C / C++ files.  I'll probably
>     start out using that.  I may also try VIM as I've had just enough
>     experience with VI in the past to be dangerous.  (I basically know
>     the insert, delete line, and write file commands.)  Obviously, I
>     would have to learn more about VIM for serious programming, but
>     you can do a lot with just those commands, although not very
>     efficiently.  By the way, this book also talks about a cross
>     platform minimal graphics toolkit called FLTK (faster than light
>     toolkit, I think) which can be used to put basic windows and
>     buttons on the screen, etc.  When I graduate to an IDE, I'll
>     probably try NetBeans or Eclipse.  I believe Eclipse can run on
>     Windows too.
>
>     Sincerely,
>
>     Ron
>
>
>     On 4/20/2011 11:47 PM, Richard Faulkner wrote:
>>     Can anyone point me to a preferred C compiler or developer
>>     environment for Fedora 12-14?  Time to play code monkey and don't
>>     want to do it on a Window$ box (for which I've done C++ in the
>>     past upon).
>>
>>     Thanks!   RinL
>

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