Creating and Compiling a C++ project on Windows

I need to work on C++ project on my windows machine. My project will consist of various classes(.h and .cpp) as well as the start开发者_如何学JAVAup file to start the application. The preliminary design is simple but the application has the potential to gain complexity as time goes by. What I need here is ideas to set up the C++ project compiler/IDE/Makefile etc..etc. as well as some standard tools besides Visual C++ to compile/build/link projects such as these on a Windows OS.

Thanks

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Eclipse C++ (CDT) along with Mingw or Cywgin are pretty nice, if you don't have Visual Studio.

http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/

If you want a full UNIX or POSIX standard style toolset, use Cywgin by itself.

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If you already have Visual Studio installed, it has everything you want. I can't think of anything else except the following,

1. A diff tool - eg. winmerge
2. Version control plugin - eg. AnkhSVN
3. Hex editor (VS hex editor- not so useful for huge binary files) - eg. hxd

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I recommend Qt Creator. It comes with MinGW out of the box and is a superb IDE. Well worth a download.

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I've used mingw and netbeans to develop on Windows. I chose Netbeans because it isn't excessively complicated to learn and is cross platform. I didn't like eclipse because it was in my opinion overly complex and the debugger didn't work for me in windows.

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Use the Express version of Visual Studio.

M.

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I would recommend that you install MSYS/MINGW and have your program compile with it as well as visual studio.

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Both the eclipse and NetBeans IDEs are available for Windows and support C/C++ development, as well as avariety of other languages.

They both also support a fairly wide range of plug-ins for a variety of tasks.

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I've used both NetBeans and Qt Creator. From an extensibility and UI perspective I prefer NetBeans. It has a nice collection of tools and add-ons (though they recently stopped supporting UML modeling) and it seems easier to navigate your class structure and the like.

Qt Creator, I think, takes a little more getting used to, but it is easier to use when you're developing apps with multiple libraries... of course it might be that I just haven't discovered how to do that in NetBeans yet ;).

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Try the GCC tool chain on Cygwin.