I also have a useful link if I can find the bookmark, mail me direct if
you want it.
I Can only recommend the book
Programming with GNU Software
Mike Loukides and Andy Oram
O'reilly
ISBN: 1-56592-112-7
(I can bring it on sunday if you want to have a look before you buy)
It covers everything from Editing and Compiling to Makefiles and the
CVS system.
Also for makeing Makefiles, I found it useful to use someone elses as
an initial template (drop me a line if you want me to make a simple
one
for you)
HTH
Thanks
D
--- Earl Brannigan earl.brannigan@lindenhouse.co.uk wrote:
Hi again.
I come from a M$ windoze programming background (although I did do
a
bit of
Oracle on Unix for a while) but I'm dying to get into programming
on
Linux
in C/C++.
I have everything I need compiler wise, All the C Libraries etc
but...
Unfortunately Windoze programming gets you into some bad (lazy)
habits with
nice IDEs, taking care of your include directories, compiler
switches
etc).
Thus moving to a command line compiler is a bit of a headache,
generating
makefiles is something I know nothing about - despite reading the
man/info
pages on make/automake/autoconf etc I'm still completely in the
dark.
Does anyone have any good info on this, I don't even mind beginners
stuff,
just something to get me moving (I've made a start on the How-Tos).
Or better still (begin lazy Win user hopeful smile) is there an IDE
out
there for X which sits on top of GCC and takes care of at least
some
of the
nitty gritty?
Or a little wizard to help create makefiles from a source tree or
something.
Anything.
I've looked at the section on Front-ends at www.gnu.org but
couldn't
see
anything, I haven't got much time (at work you see) and would
rather
not
re-trawl the same ground someone else has already covered.
Or if you have any pointers, advice - eg. good practice when
setting
up
source trees in Linux etc, how easy is this 'macro language' which
you use
to create the files which become makefiles?
I Hope this isn't too noddy a posting.
Cheers
Earl
BTW will be at Syleham on Sunday (wife has granted leave) so see
yer
there.
"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy
to
be
broken."
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