Digital mars cd

[Paul Breen]

Mr Harris:
Digital mars offers a c and c++ development cd for 42$ that seems old fashioned, but what we are doing is old fashioned.
http://www.digitalmars.com/shop.html
Has anyone tried this? You can get the compiler for free, it is the development gui-ide that is $
Seems to be a simple approach, compared to the large ide packages.
Source code is included.
No registry changes, or setup, just load and run (that is what they say)
thaks,
Paul Breen

[Frederick J. Harris]

I know the CodeBlocks editor which is what I do most of my fooling around with in C++ has a template for D.  I never knew much about it but just now checked Wikipedia on it.  Have you used it?  Is it the next big coming language?  I see there are a few published books on it.  I don't believe the D compiler was setup with CodeBlocks, or was it??? 

If I had time to play around with other languages than C++ and PowerBASIC I think I'd like to learn to use C++/CLI or .NET a little.  Here a little while ago I got a C++/CLI book and compiled a few little starter programs.  I thought it was pretty neat that one could so easily call any of the 'unmanaged' C/C++ standard functions, or ones own functions, and also mix in the .NET framework stuff.  But then PInvoke from .NET isn't too hard either.



     

[Paul Breen]

It is funny how subjects digress. . .I was thinking of the c++ compiler and tools on this cd,  not the d compiler. There is, included, win32 pkg,
mfc and decompilers for object code etc. This would be to compile the examples of c++ code you have listed here. Mr Bright wrote the c++
compiler and also offers the source code for it.

But you thought I was referrring to D. I have tried it and it is very attractive. I got the SlickEdit IDE for it and it works great. I don't have the time to spend on it and there is all this school work I am supposed to be doing.  Here is some very interesting coments on D.
http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/217801225
It is an interview at Dr Dobbs journal. Andrei Alexandrescu, a brilliant guy in the c++ world, is writing a book on D. I have pre ordered it
at amazon. his site is http://erdani.com/
goota go
PB

[Frederick J. Harris]

It is funny how subjects digress. .

It was my fault!  Somehow I got fixated on D from the link you gave.  Sorry about that.

Actually, before I'd go buying that IDE I ought to take a little time to actually set up that Sun Javabeans thing.  When I get time I think I'll revisit that.  The IDE ran for me and looked really nice; I just didn't want to sink more time into fooling around with the compiler as I'm somewhat busy right now. 

All those C/C++ programs I posted should work with most any C/C++ compiler.  I tested all of them with Dev-Cpp and CodeBlocks (which are free) and some of them with VC6 and VC9 (Visual Studio 2008 Pro). 
 

[Paul Breen]

I just installed the new netbeans 6.8 with c++ plugins and the whole enchalada to run. I am at a
computer lab at school and started from scratch with a new everything.

did the simple sample project to confirm compiler installation. I was kind of shocked when it compiled and
ran.
It is  not too bad if you do not get diverted by a couple of tricky dialogs. Here goes.
The step numbers that I mention are from this page:
1) http://netbeans.org/community/releases/68/cpp-setup-instructions.html#compilers_windows

click on
http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=2435&filename=MinGW-5.1.4.exe&a=57946486

Do not click yes on the updated installer, it has problems. The old one works fine.
click on g++ like step number five on the first page tells you to. do not choose the make here.
I loaded objective c for fun.

files will download and install, use the default location to check it out, I would move it later if you must.
I went with default locations for everything.

at number 11, use the defaults and let 'er rip. This is actually pretty easy.

at number 14, I used winRAR, you will need that or some other program to unpack the debugger.
I did just what they said, unpacked to c:\mingw\bin and clicked yes to overwrite any files during the unpack

In netbeans, make sure you have the c++ plugin. if not, use the plugin tool in the \Tools menu (duh!) and get that plugin. you have to reboot netbeans, but they tell you that anyway.

you can set the path with a command line, if you use the settings dialog,(like the instructions say) it wont work until you reboot.
(that tricked me last time)

Fred, it all went pretty easy, I can't recommend one compiler over another for netbeans because I have not done
anything complicated.  I think it took just as long to type this as it did to download everything and get it going. Fifteen minutes, at the most.

I think you are going to like netbeans ide.  I had less trouble with this than the powerbasic patch download.

later,
Paul