Which Linux applications can be used as an equivqlent of VC++ in Windows?

3 Comments

1. AgronCA S says:

   1. October 2009 at 02:38

   KDEVELOP, it actually is way better than VS .NET 2005.
   You will be surprised when you see all the features is supports.
   There is also IBM Visual Age for C++.
2. Ron G says:

   1. October 2009 at 02:38

   there are no equivalents.

   you will work from the command line

   any text editor like email or vi

   and compile with gcc
3. Railgun says:

   1. October 2009 at 02:38

   You probably mean Visual Studio. VC++ is a MS’s C++ programming language. If you really mean VC++, then you can write programs in C++ in Linux – just the MS Toolbox classes will not be available – only "std C++" libraries and the libraries on your install of Linux (or ones you add).

   VS is an IDE (integrated development environment) so it is actually several functionalities integrated into a single program with a nice GUI interface. For example, you edit and create the source text of the program using the programmer’s editor (one functionality). In Linux you can use any editor from Vi tor emacs to any GUI editor you like. The IDE also has a compiler. In Linux you can just use the command line gcc (or g++) program. The IDE includes a debugger. In Linux you can use gdb.

   There are GUI IDE’s on Linux as well. Most are just GUI applications that call the equivalent command line program for you. When you click "compile" in the menu, the IDE just sends a command to gcc with the appropriate CL input parameters.

   The Mac (OS X) is really just BSD Unix at its core and all Macs include a free GUI IDE called XCode which again is just a GUI front end to all the UNIX CL tools.