Development setups

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When first getting into development, it can be difficult getting a to the point where one can just write and compile some code. For each platform there are some well tested setups that can get you going quickly.


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1 Cross Platform
2 Windows
3 Linux
4 Mac OSX
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Cross Platform

These setups can be used on Windows, Linux and many other platforms - giving the advantage of consistancy wherever you go.

A recently available open source IDE is Code::Blocks (http://www.codeblocks.org). The IDE is highly extensible and worth checking out. Supports several compilers (GCC (MingW / Linux GCC), MSVC++, Digital Mars, Borland C++ 5.5 and Open Watcom).

  • Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/) An open-source IDE for C/C++, Java and COBOL and more.
  • Free Pascal (http://www.freepascal.org/) An open-source pascal compiler.

Allegro, OpenGL, SDL and GLUT work on just about all systems.

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Windows

The best loved Windows IDE is Visual Studio (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/default.aspx) (it supports a great number of languages), and through beta/student programs it can be obtained quite cheaply. Microsoft now also offers free downloads of it's IDEs in the form of Express Editions (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/). C, C++, C# and Visual Basic are most prominant here. The professional’s tool.

  • DevC++ (http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/devcpp.html) Open source IDE for C and C++.
  • Code::Blocks (http://www.codeblocks.org) Another open source IDE for C and C++.
  • SharpDevelop (http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/) Open source IDE for C#, VB.net and Boo.
  • Borland Delphi (http://www.borland.com/) Supports C# and object pascal.

DirectX and OpenGL are both options here. DirectX is a microsoft-platform only library.

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Linux

Linux's GNU GCC (http://gcc.gnu.org/) package is able to compile most languages and can be easily installed on most linux systems. C and C++ are most popular with Java not too far behind.

  • GDB: The GNU Project Debugger (http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/gdb.html) a popular free software debugger
  • Anjuta (http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/) One of the best C/C++ IDEs for Linux.
  • KDevelop (http://www.kdevelop.org/) The open-source IDE from the people of KDE, resembles IntelliJ UI

Allegro, SDL and OpenGL are available here.

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Mac OSX

Apple's own tools are well recieved by all those who use them. Cocoa, Carbon, Xcode, Objective C/C++ all increase productivity on the platform. See the apple game development (http://developer.apple.com/games/) section.

OpenGL with Cocoa or Carbon are good combinations.

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