From: Al Christians <achrist AT easystreet DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Windows IDE
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 23:35:16 -0700
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I tried DFE under NT 4.0 sp3 the other day.  Observed two things poor:

1.  When I compiled, none of my error messages came back in the message 
window, it just told success/failure.

2.  I got several NTVDM errors.

I sent email to the address listed on the page I downloaded from, and
got back a response that added up to 'beats the bejeezus out of me'
on both counts.

So, it's a very nice looking package that has a couple of minor flaws
that make it totally unusable for me at present.  I'd be interested 
to know if there are any solutions to these problems available.


The somewhat sparse documentation that comes with it mentions that 
you can't build projects of more than 8 or 9 files from the IDE, but
it does say that you can generate a make file.  Since it's no problem
to have another window open in NT, this would be ok as long as the
makefile was good.  I didn't get far enough with it to figure that out.

Another annoyance is that files have to be added to a project 
one-by-one.  My project already has about 60 files in it, and 
you've got to go in and out of the file dialog for each one you
want to add.  The dialog doesn't support multiple selections 
from the file list.

There is another IDE, PC-Grasp from Auburn University that will work
with gcc, so it might also work with djgpp.  However, its editor 
seems to insist on reformatting code, and I didn't care for the way
it re-arranged mine.

If anyone with more time and patience than me found a way to work 
around, avoid, or accommodate the  limitations I found in these
packages, they might be very pleased with either.


Al


> Jason Eccles wrote:
> >
> > 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
>