Message-ID: <001801bd64c2$b7af6480$3c4f939b@mcpherss.army.mil>
Reply-To: "Scott McPherson" <mcpherson AT bigfoot DOT com>
From: "Scott McPherson" <mcpherson AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: "Kick Jupiter" <kick AT jupiter DOT com>, <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Windows IDE
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 15:53:19 -0500
Precedence: bulk

Jason,

I've had a bunch of trouble running RHIDE under Windows 95 as
well.  Nothing insurmountable, but a number of little nuisances
(one after another, of course) that made it a pain nonetheless.

Anyway, I'm not complaining about RHIDE -- considering it's
price, it's an outstanding value.  I'm using DFE 95 myself now,
and it is not without its little quirks, either.  But overall, it
does a super job of organizing projects, listing project
dependencies, and providing a FRIENDLY environment in which to
work.  As a new programmer, DFE 95 presented me with a much
"cleaner", more intuitive interface to djgpp than did RHIDE.
There are a couple things you may miss about RHIDE:

1.  DFE 95's editor does not do Syntax Highlighting, which is one
feature I loved about RHIDE.

2.  DFE 95 uses only "gcc", not "gxx".  Honestly, I'm not even
sure what that means!  It doesn't sound good, but it seems to
work well enough.  (The only impact I'm aware of at the moment is
that you must specifically select the libraries you want to
include in linking, e.g., stdcxx, but doing so is an easy task.)

Best Regards,

Scott McPherson


-----Original Message-----
From: Kick Jupiter <kick AT jupiter DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Friday, April 10, 1998 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: Windows IDE


>There is DFE, a Windows95 front-end for DJGPP. I don't know how
"good" it is
>since I've not tried it yet. Judging from the screen shot, I may
have a look
>myself. Here is the web page.
>
>http://pw1.netcom.com/~kased811/dfe95.html
>
>Its too bad that you are having problems with RHIDE. I have had
no problems,
>even running in a Win95 window. Very stable. Perhaps you do not
have the
>latest version?
>
>-Greg
>
>
>In article <6gloo1$nse$1 AT nclient5-gui DOT server DOT virgin DOT net>,
>jason DOT eccles AT virgin DOT net says...
>>
>>Is there a good IDE for DJGPP which will work under Win95. I
have tried
>>using RHIDE but there seems to be so much trouble with it and
LFNs and
>>linking errors etc. I would just like to be able to write a
program and
>>compile it and run it. Please help
>>
>>jason DOT eccles AT virgin DOT net
>>
>
>