GP2X N00b Ide Question

[bdoerle]

Hello all,

I am new to the home brew dev scene, and I am looking to get into developing for the gp2x. First off, a little bit about my experience coding. I have been coding in c++ for about 4 years, and I know a decent amount of OpenGL and Direct 3D. You can check out my last school project my friends and I worked on at my web site (http://bdoerle.com/FlameWars.html).

I would like to start developing some games for gp2x, probably early next year (since I wont have the money to get one until then). I was wondering if anyone knows of a good IDE for Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X that will work with the gp2x. I have never really used GCC, make files, and such, and I would like stay away from that if I can. I have never done any development on any platform other than windows, so I am a n00b when it comes to this stuff.

If this question was answered somewhere else I apologize, I was not able to find an answer.

Thanks

 

[aapje89]

you can check out the wiki:
http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/Getting_started_...P2X_development

flamewars looks cool by the way

 

[noir.pl]

2 most popular IDEs for Linux:

KDevelop
http://www.kdevelop.org/

Anjuta
http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/


Of course you don't have to use IDE... Many people prefer to use advanced text editors, write makefiles by hand, use gdb or gdb+ddd as debugger, ctags for indexing code, cvs or svn as revision control system, cccc for metrics, splint for static code analysis, doxygen for documentation, indent for code formatting ... and many other specialized tools

Anyway, here is a list of good text editors for *NIX:

scite - http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
kate - http://kate.kde.org/
nedit - http://www.nedit.org/
vim - http://www.vim.org/
emacs - http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

 

[no_skill]

Linux/Windows:

Eclipse + CDT (C/C++)

 

[judge0]

A nice clean IDE with Mingw for Win32 platform is Dev-C++ from here - with a little tweaking this easily cross-compiles to different platforms.

In Linux Eclipse or Kdevelop are fairly popular as Designed-From-Ground-Up IDEs

Some use vi or emacs (they are highly customizable to be indistinguishable from IDEs

Hope this helps :rolleyes:

 

[yaustar]

IDE:
http://www.codeblocks.org/

Text Editors:
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/about.php
http://www.pnotepad.org/
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

 

[MiniMoose]

Linux/Windows:

Eclipse + CDT (C/C++)

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I second this suggestion and I would like to point out that Eclipse also runs on Mac OS X.

 

[Blah]

For general C/C++ hacking, I use Programmers Notepad 2. For an IDE, I use DevC++.

 

[pea]

u SUKs N00b! Ps3 roxors. M$ rox0rs yeah!

hehe. Nice concept you've got with Flame Wars.
Just thought I would pip in.

 

[Ravnos]

Linux/Windows:

Eclipse + CDT (C/C++)

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I second this suggestion and I would like to point out that Eclipse also runs on Mac OS X.

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Eclipse is nice but it's a pig. As soon as I start it up on my laptop I can forget about running anything else. It's the same on my desktop here at work (though I shouldn't have it on this one at all...) It just seems like you need a pretty beefy machine to make good use of it.

 

[no_skill]

depends on the cd you have.

and what you want to do.

on my 700mhz laptop w/ 512mb ram eclipse didn't kill the machine.
however i couldn't suggest it wihtout doubts right away for c++ development. haven't tried it for that yet. (just java and php).

however i can't suggest any of the other ide either as i haven't used them.

just
msvc++ - teh suck (ever heard of auto completion? ms hasn't.)
and
devcpp (crashes and problems on my pc. and somehow feels like a texteditor with highlighting and shortcuts for gcc *. weird.)


bdoerle: my suggestion for you:

1.) decide wether you want an ide or just a notepad with syntax highlighting (might be enough for starting, maybe not)
2.) ask people give you a list of the stuff (best with notes if they used it and how they *feel* about it (means: don't take everything said here (and elsewhere) 100% for granted)
3.) check each things website (and probably some screenshots) and decide (along with the other users previous experience you've heard of) what you use.

 

[bdoerle]

Thanks for all the information guys... I will search through the info and figure out the best way for me to go is.

Thanks again everyone

 

[codesmith]

msvc++ - teh suck (ever heard of auto completion? ms hasn't.)

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Man, you must have an ooold version of visual studio, it's had autocompletion for as long as I can remember.