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Hi, Where to start with Linux programming, I would like to so something windowed (like the apps and that stuff that we can do with Visual Studio), but... no idea what's going on now on Linux... I've heard that there is an IDE quite similar to Visual Studio IDE, but I've heard as well, that if you program a thing for KDE, then may it won't work for another linux windows environment and... :-( Well... can you tell me some point to start ?, Thanks Braulio Ps.: I've heard as well that some people is making the .net stuff for linux ???
Braulio Díez wrote: I've heard that there is an IDE quite similar to Visual Studio IDE, but I've heard as well, that if you program a thing for KDE, then may it won't work for another linux windows environment and... The IDE you have heard of is KDevelop. I have not used it myself, but I hear its quite good, but nowhere near VS. If you develop for KDE, then you are most likely creating windowed apps with QT, so you will need the QTlibs installed on any environment your programs needs to run in. In my experience there is never any guarantees that a compiled application will run outside the environment it's been compiled for, when you are dealing with linux. --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."
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Braulio Díez wrote: I've heard that there is an IDE quite similar to Visual Studio IDE, but I've heard as well, that if you program a thing for KDE, then may it won't work for another linux windows environment and... The IDE you have heard of is KDevelop. I have not used it myself, but I hear its quite good, but nowhere near VS. If you develop for KDE, then you are most likely creating windowed apps with QT, so you will need the QTlibs installed on any environment your programs needs to run in. In my experience there is never any guarantees that a compiled application will run outside the environment it's been compiled for, when you are dealing with linux. --- -"Minds are like parachutes. They only work when open."
good old MOTIF, that the way to go I think. It might look pretty bad but as far as I know as long as you have X-Windows, you can run the apps. There is a freebie version of MOTIF out somewhere, I used to have to use it at university, one whole year of it. excuse the bad grammar, birthday today and quite drunk already :D
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Hi, Where to start with Linux programming, I would like to so something windowed (like the apps and that stuff that we can do with Visual Studio), but... no idea what's going on now on Linux... I've heard that there is an IDE quite similar to Visual Studio IDE, but I've heard as well, that if you program a thing for KDE, then may it won't work for another linux windows environment and... :-( Well... can you tell me some point to start ?, Thanks Braulio Ps.: I've heard as well that some people is making the .net stuff for linux ???
KDE progrms will run on other desktop environments if the necessary libraries are available. If you write your program using the Qt library, it can be ported to Windows and Mac systems. Or you can develop your Qt program on Windows with Visual Studio IDE and then recompile it on Linux.
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Hi, Where to start with Linux programming, I would like to so something windowed (like the apps and that stuff that we can do with Visual Studio), but... no idea what's going on now on Linux... I've heard that there is an IDE quite similar to Visual Studio IDE, but I've heard as well, that if you program a thing for KDE, then may it won't work for another linux windows environment and... :-( Well... can you tell me some point to start ?, Thanks Braulio Ps.: I've heard as well that some people is making the .net stuff for linux ???
QT or GTK for window libraries, KDevelop for the IDE Mono or dotgnu for .net type thing. B.
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Hi, Where to start with Linux programming, I would like to so something windowed (like the apps and that stuff that we can do with Visual Studio), but... no idea what's going on now on Linux... I've heard that there is an IDE quite similar to Visual Studio IDE, but I've heard as well, that if you program a thing for KDE, then may it won't work for another linux windows environment and... :-( Well... can you tell me some point to start ?, Thanks Braulio Ps.: I've heard as well that some people is making the .net stuff for linux ???
_Where to start with Linux programming, I would like to so something windowed (like the apps and that stuff that we can do with Visual Studio), but... no idea what's going on now on Linux...
I've heard that there is an IDE quite similar to Visual Studio IDE, but I've heard as well, that if you program a thing for KDE, then may it won't work for another linux windows environment and..._
I learned C++ on Linux and Solaris. Only in the last couple of years have I been using MSVC. Although I have grown to like MSVC, I do not consider it a good replacement for a solid shell environment (on *NIX).
Let me clear one thing up, the Linux windowing environment (the X Windows System) is not tied to the operating system. In fact, I currently develop my programs on Linux and re-compile them on Solaris without changing any code (so long as I have a KDE development environment running on Solaris). You can run programs developed in Kdevelop in any X Windows environment on the same platform. I run such programs in Solaris' CDE environment.
Kdevelop is not as advanced as MSVC. It is getting there, and is probably the best available for now. Some other contenders to watch for:
KDEStudio Gold (http://www.thekompany.com)
Is similar to Kdevelop but is a commercial product with better "intellisense-like" behaviour than Kdevelop's.Anjuta (http://www.anjuta.org)
Is Gnome-based. Good product but still no stable release.Kylix 3
This is Borland's free C++ Builder and Delphi for Linux. What is nice about these IDE's is that they produce project files and code that can be immediately used with the Windows versions of their products without modification. Excellent cross-platform product.Mono for Linux (http://www.go-mono.org) is still under heavy development. There are no Visual Studio .Net - like IDE's for this, but Microsoft's own products are said to work with it.
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KDE progrms will run on other desktop environments if the necessary libraries are available. If you write your program using the Qt library, it can be ported to Windows and Mac systems. Or you can develop your Qt program on Windows with Visual Studio IDE and then recompile it on Linux.
Thanks, Where can I find a good quickstart tutorial about that ? Thanks, greetings Braulio
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QT or GTK for window libraries, KDevelop for the IDE Mono or dotgnu for .net type thing. B.
Thanks, any good link to a quick start tutorial ? Thanks greetings Braulio
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_Where to start with Linux programming, I would like to so something windowed (like the apps and that stuff that we can do with Visual Studio), but... no idea what's going on now on Linux...
I've heard that there is an IDE quite similar to Visual Studio IDE, but I've heard as well, that if you program a thing for KDE, then may it won't work for another linux windows environment and..._
I learned C++ on Linux and Solaris. Only in the last couple of years have I been using MSVC. Although I have grown to like MSVC, I do not consider it a good replacement for a solid shell environment (on *NIX).
Let me clear one thing up, the Linux windowing environment (the X Windows System) is not tied to the operating system. In fact, I currently develop my programs on Linux and re-compile them on Solaris without changing any code (so long as I have a KDE development environment running on Solaris). You can run programs developed in Kdevelop in any X Windows environment on the same platform. I run such programs in Solaris' CDE environment.
Kdevelop is not as advanced as MSVC. It is getting there, and is probably the best available for now. Some other contenders to watch for:
KDEStudio Gold (http://www.thekompany.com)
Is similar to Kdevelop but is a commercial product with better "intellisense-like" behaviour than Kdevelop's.Anjuta (http://www.anjuta.org)
Is Gnome-based. Good product but still no stable release.Kylix 3
This is Borland's free C++ Builder and Delphi for Linux. What is nice about these IDE's is that they produce project files and code that can be immediately used with the Windows versions of their products without modification. Excellent cross-platform product.Mono for Linux (http://www.go-mono.org) is still under heavy development. There are no Visual Studio .Net - like IDE's for this, but Microsoft's own products are said to work with it.
Thanks for the info ! So KDevelop now is the point to start ( or that Kylix then is really free ??? cool !). Do you know where can I find a quick start tutorial for KDevelop and Qt? programming. Thanks Braulio
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Thanks, any good link to a quick start tutorial ? Thanks greetings Braulio
Try http://www.gtk.org/[^] - there is a tutorial section. I don't think there's much for mono and the like, but then, it's .net, so why not look here :) B.
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Thanks, Where can I find a good quickstart tutorial about that ? Thanks, greetings Braulio
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Thanks for the info ! So KDevelop now is the point to start ( or that Kylix then is really free ??? cool !). Do you know where can I find a quick start tutorial for KDevelop and Qt? programming. Thanks Braulio
http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/[^] There are some licensing issues with Qt. I think there are some tutorials at that website, otherwise google will help. ;) B.
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Hi, Where to start with Linux programming, I would like to so something windowed (like the apps and that stuff that we can do with Visual Studio), but... no idea what's going on now on Linux... I've heard that there is an IDE quite similar to Visual Studio IDE, but I've heard as well, that if you program a thing for KDE, then may it won't work for another linux windows environment and... :-( Well... can you tell me some point to start ?, Thanks Braulio Ps.: I've heard as well that some people is making the .net stuff for linux ???
Consider using wxWindows. wxWindows is a portable C++ GUI framework which you can use on Windows, Linux, Mac, ... You can develop your program in Visual Studio and port the code to another platform, build it and run it. wxWindows classes are similar to MFC classes, so it's easy to get started.
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Hi, Where to start with Linux programming, I would like to so something windowed (like the apps and that stuff that we can do with Visual Studio), but... no idea what's going on now on Linux... I've heard that there is an IDE quite similar to Visual Studio IDE, but I've heard as well, that if you program a thing for KDE, then may it won't work for another linux windows environment and... :-( Well... can you tell me some point to start ?, Thanks Braulio Ps.: I've heard as well that some people is making the .net stuff for linux ???
You have Kdevelop [^] , it's getting better with the age and kylix 3, the open version is free :-D , it produces native linux execs , but it's a pain in the butt to make it work correctly on a non linux supported linux distribution , for instance they only support RedHat 7.2 ... now the fun part is if you want to make it work correctly on RedHat 8.0 for instance , let's for a ride ;) Step 1: After you downloaded and registered with Borland , you get the kylix files and the reg file ... Now the fun begins ... Step 2: Do not install it with the default "sh setup.sh" if you install as root, the rpm manager has a bug on redhat(and on others latest distributions also) , so do a install without it like this: "sh setup.sh -m" , the steps of instalation are equal and the instalation works . Step 3: If you don't downloaded the Kylix open update 2 from borland , do it, it resolves a serious bug with locales (resources,etc...) Step 4: Now that you thought that the fun was over , it starts all over again , you must upgrade the linux kernel !!!! The damn dialogs on Kylix are always freezing ... Step 5: Go to ftp.kernel.org/pu/linux/[^] and download the latest stable linux kernel - 2.4.19 Kernel upgrade : 1. Download the kernel tarball to home directory ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.19.tar.gz 2. log to superuser "su - root" 3. copy the downloaded kernel tarball to /usr/src/ "cp linux-2.4.19.tar.gz /usr/src/" 4. change to the directory you copied the kernel to "cd /usr/src/" 5. uncompress the kernel tarball "gzip -cd linux-2.4.19.tar.gz | tar xfv -" 6. delete the symbolic link and create it again to the 2.4.19 kernel "rm linux-2.4" "ln -s linux-2.4.19 linux-2.4" 7. change directory to linux-2.4 "cd /usr/src/linux-2.4" 8. make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around "make mrproper" Workaround about a bug in the visual kernel config (xconfig) !!!!!! This one also bited me hard ... linux-2.4.18-14 is the kernel used by RedHat 8 9. "cp /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/configs/kernel-linux-2.14.18-i386.config .config" -> this will create a local .
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good old MOTIF, that the way to go I think. It might look pretty bad but as far as I know as long as you have X-Windows, you can run the apps. There is a freebie version of MOTIF out somewhere, I used to have to use it at university, one whole year of it. excuse the bad grammar, birthday today and quite drunk already :D
I used Motif when I was in college, and a few years ago rescued the whole Motif reference book series (more or less 8 books, roughly 8000 pages worth) that was headed for the dumpster (still shrinkwrapped!) So is this stuff still worth hanging on to, in the somewhat unlikely event that I might someday write something for Linux? My understanding is that using Motif buys you independence both from Gnome and KDE. Is this right? (This is probably getting dangerously close to a "What is Motif, and what is its place in 2002?" FAQ)...
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Daniel Desormeaux wrote: Whatever happened to "Next/Next/Next/Finish"? Yeah! Since I currently work in a *nix environment I'm getting used to it :omg: , I losing some bad habits from the Windows world :laugh: Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech
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You have Kdevelop [^] , it's getting better with the age and kylix 3, the open version is free :-D , it produces native linux execs , but it's a pain in the butt to make it work correctly on a non linux supported linux distribution , for instance they only support RedHat 7.2 ... now the fun part is if you want to make it work correctly on RedHat 8.0 for instance , let's for a ride ;) Step 1: After you downloaded and registered with Borland , you get the kylix files and the reg file ... Now the fun begins ... Step 2: Do not install it with the default "sh setup.sh" if you install as root, the rpm manager has a bug on redhat(and on others latest distributions also) , so do a install without it like this: "sh setup.sh -m" , the steps of instalation are equal and the instalation works . Step 3: If you don't downloaded the Kylix open update 2 from borland , do it, it resolves a serious bug with locales (resources,etc...) Step 4: Now that you thought that the fun was over , it starts all over again , you must upgrade the linux kernel !!!! The damn dialogs on Kylix are always freezing ... Step 5: Go to ftp.kernel.org/pu/linux/[^] and download the latest stable linux kernel - 2.4.19 Kernel upgrade : 1. Download the kernel tarball to home directory ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.19.tar.gz 2. log to superuser "su - root" 3. copy the downloaded kernel tarball to /usr/src/ "cp linux-2.4.19.tar.gz /usr/src/" 4. change to the directory you copied the kernel to "cd /usr/src/" 5. uncompress the kernel tarball "gzip -cd linux-2.4.19.tar.gz | tar xfv -" 6. delete the symbolic link and create it again to the 2.4.19 kernel "rm linux-2.4" "ln -s linux-2.4.19 linux-2.4" 7. change directory to linux-2.4 "cd /usr/src/linux-2.4" 8. make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around "make mrproper" Workaround about a bug in the visual kernel config (xconfig) !!!!!! This one also bited me hard ... linux-2.4.18-14 is the kernel used by RedHat 8 9. "cp /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/configs/kernel-linux-2.14.18-i386.config .config" -> this will create a local .
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Daniel Desormeaux wrote: Whatever happened to "Next/Next/Next/Finish"? Yeah! Since I currently work in a *nix environment I'm getting used to it :omg: , I losing some bad habits from the Windows world :laugh: Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech
IMHO that's one of the reasons I don't see Linux taking over the desktop anytime soon--the current attitude is, "oh well, you get used to it" and the Linux zealots don't have much of an incentive to improve anything beyond that. If they want Linux to take over the desktop (or even simply make inroads), they *need* to achieve the "Next/Next/Next/Finish" usability level--they need to start by putting this higher on their priority list... My two cents anyway...
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IMHO that's one of the reasons I don't see Linux taking over the desktop anytime soon--the current attitude is, "oh well, you get used to it" and the Linux zealots don't have much of an incentive to improve anything beyond that. If they want Linux to take over the desktop (or even simply make inroads), they *need* to achieve the "Next/Next/Next/Finish" usability level--they need to start by putting this higher on their priority list... My two cents anyway...
Daniel Desormeaux wrote: they *need* to achieve the "Next/Next/Next/Finish" usability level--they need to start by putting this higher on their priority list... They are trying , but it will be a very,very long run , the kind of problems on linux that can happen are way more that n*log2n problems than on windows ... X| X| X| Cheers,Joao Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech
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You have Kdevelop [^] , it's getting better with the age and kylix 3, the open version is free :-D , it produces native linux execs , but it's a pain in the butt to make it work correctly on a non linux supported linux distribution , for instance they only support RedHat 7.2 ... now the fun part is if you want to make it work correctly on RedHat 8.0 for instance , let's for a ride ;) Step 1: After you downloaded and registered with Borland , you get the kylix files and the reg file ... Now the fun begins ... Step 2: Do not install it with the default "sh setup.sh" if you install as root, the rpm manager has a bug on redhat(and on others latest distributions also) , so do a install without it like this: "sh setup.sh -m" , the steps of instalation are equal and the instalation works . Step 3: If you don't downloaded the Kylix open update 2 from borland , do it, it resolves a serious bug with locales (resources,etc...) Step 4: Now that you thought that the fun was over , it starts all over again , you must upgrade the linux kernel !!!! The damn dialogs on Kylix are always freezing ... Step 5: Go to ftp.kernel.org/pu/linux/[^] and download the latest stable linux kernel - 2.4.19 Kernel upgrade : 1. Download the kernel tarball to home directory ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.19.tar.gz 2. log to superuser "su - root" 3. copy the downloaded kernel tarball to /usr/src/ "cp linux-2.4.19.tar.gz /usr/src/" 4. change to the directory you copied the kernel to "cd /usr/src/" 5. uncompress the kernel tarball "gzip -cd linux-2.4.19.tar.gz | tar xfv -" 6. delete the symbolic link and create it again to the 2.4.19 kernel "rm linux-2.4" "ln -s linux-2.4.19 linux-2.4" 7. change directory to linux-2.4 "cd /usr/src/linux-2.4" 8. make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around "make mrproper" Workaround about a bug in the visual kernel config (xconfig) !!!!!! This one also bited me hard ... linux-2.4.18-14 is the kernel used by RedHat 8 9. "cp /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/configs/kernel-linux-2.14.18-i386.config .config" -> this will create a local .
Hi Joao ! That was the thing I was afraid of... I had a similar experience one time trying to download some Apache JSP stuff, and make it work in a Mandrake version :-( So... It seems that with KDevelop it can happen the same ?, problems to install it, problems to make work your app on any linux machine :-( Greetings Braulio