Some catchy title and linux something or other

Brad Leffler · 2004-08-12T13:45:13

Let me propose a scenario. I have a C/C++ codebase that builds and functions as intended on Win32 and OSX. I've been toying with the idea of building for Linux as well. We'll leave my previous experience out of it, suffice to say I've used more OS environments than most people have heard of. Here's the problem... I want an out of the box Linux development solution. Problem?! Read on. I refuse to work with a command line programming environment, so naturally that leads me to some IDE like KDevelop or Ajunta. Last time I tried Ajunta I was immediately presented with dependency hell. I'm not interested in putting a build environment together. I'll spend time learning to use an application to get the job done, but it's a waste of my time to learn how to find and correct default installation flaws. This is not an out of the box solution. Recently I tried everything again with Mandrake 10.0. Installed everything by default (just in case), which by all accounts was about as painless as any other OS these days. Kudos for that. Afterwards I started up KDevelop and tried to build and run some default projects. A simple command line app compiled but KDevelop couldn't find it to run afterwards. A KDevelop generated KDE 'hello world' project failed to even compile. This is pretty ridiculous if you ask me. An IDE not able to compile and run a project that *IT* just created?! Not to mention the fact that KDevelop seems to crash... a lot. This is not an out of the box solution. Now I'm sure that this is all fodder for some people's RTFM comments, but my programmer's intuition should be more than enough to install an OS and development tools, generate a project and have the IDE run it. This is possible with Windows/Visual Studio and OSX/XCode. Call me lazy, but until I can do it with Linux, it's not worth the effort. So once again I query, does anyone know of an out of the box solution to produce *ANY* viable executable results in Linux?

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Started by Bradsco August 11, 2004 09:32 AM

13 comments, last by template 20 years, 6 months ago

aidan_walsh

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August 11, 2004 08:27 PM

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Original post by bytecoder
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They have a Personal Edition of C++BuilderX that can be used for free.

Oh. I thought I got that one. Is there anything special I have to do other than register?

Fastest way to answer is to show you this. I downloaded the personal edition, registered and entered the code. Then, in the license explorer:

www.aidanwalsh(.net)(.info)

bytecoder

100

August 11, 2004 11:55 PM

Where exactly is the license explorer? I can't seem to find it.

aidan_walsh

739

August 12, 2004 10:54 AM

Start the program with the -license argument.

www.aidanwalsh(.net)(.info)

bytecoder

100

August 12, 2004 11:38 AM

Oh ok. So I don't have the trial version after all. And to think, I almost deleted it thinking that I did.

template

214

August 12, 2004 01:45 PM

Does anyone know if it's possible to get code completion(i.e. when you type std:: it brings up a function/class list) working in C++BuilderX? I can't seem to find any options for it and I doubt Borland would leave such an important feature out.

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