Thread: Is this setup ok?

Ok, trying to get into the C++ way of doing things here...

I have set myself up with...

Code::Blocks / minGW as my ide/compiler

Res Edit for visual resource editing

the windows sdk and of course PellesC...

I've gotten past the "Hello World" hurdle so it's working at least that well...

Are there any pitfalls to this setup or should I be good to go?

Any reason you don't like using a plain text editor?

Originally Posted by \007

Any reason you don't like using a plain text editor?

I just love the pretty colours in code:blocks... LOL.

Actually I wanted the organization features of code:blocks to help me keep things a bit saner while learning. I wanted a visual resource editor because it's a whole lot easier lining up a dozen controls in a Dialog by drag and drop than by tweaking their locations in text files.

Looks like a solid setup. I take it you are (eventually) interested in doing GUI applications? You might want to look into Qt4, it is gaining quite alot of popularity.

Originally Posted by Shakti

Looks like a solid setup. I take it you are (eventually) interested in doing GUI applications? You might want to look into Qt4, it is gaining quite alot of popularity.

Thanks, it seems to be working well enough for now. Although I was a little surprised to see "hello world" come in at about 700k ... Must be some overhead linked in there.

I've been working winapi in C for about 3 years now... but as a dabbler, that probably amounts to about the equivalent of 6 months for a full time programmer. For me the big leap is from C to C++...

QT looks interesting... but I've still got my hands full with what I've got.

Check your build-settings. i would think quite alot of those 700k are debug-symbols.

Originally Posted by Shakti

Check your build-settings. i would think quite alot of those 700k are debug-symbols.

Hey thanks... I'll have a look...

Originally Posted by Shakti

Looks like a solid setup. I take it you are (eventually) interested in doing GUI applications? You might want to look into Qt4, it is gaining quite alot of popularity.

Qt is a very good professional toolkit, but its dual licensing is an issue if you want to distribute your applications. wxWidgets is my GUI toolkit of choice because it has one license - free. you are never required to distribute your source with your application, and you never have to pay anyone for the software.

Originally Posted by iMalc

Probably the same reason you aren't using a hex-only editor, cause there's no point making things hard on yourself.

I've always used Vim for every language I program in. I don't think it makes things harder, and I think I can program faster than an IDE.

Hehe, Well its nice to have many things in one place. I happen to use CodeBlocks with MingW. On occassion (when I'm lazy), I'll use nano with gcc (if Linux).