I am not too familar with how the IDE and Mingw are integrated,so this may not even apply, but I am submitting this siggestion. Have the IDE separate from the compiler (if possible) and have it use the exisiting Mingw on the system. That way, if we so desire, we can upgrade Mingw if we choose without having to wait for a new Dev-C++ version to come out. This suggestion obviously only applies if they are integrated (and on the Win32 version). As I understand reading the docs on the linux beta, the IDE merely uses the existing GCC on the system.
Thanks
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Do this:
1) download and extract the latest mingw
2) in dev-c open compiler options
3) set the bin directory to the newly extracted mingw's bin dir
4) set the rest of the dirs to (.) a period.
Mingw has a built in search path it will use to find the libs. Note thats for the libs that come with it. If you download an extra lib from somewhere you may need to add it's path accordingly.
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2002-10-21
I just upgraded to MinGW 2.00 (GCC3.2)
Everything is working much better.
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Cool, I was hoping to get an answer like that. I do my of my programming on Unix boxes with GCC, but at times I only have access to a Windows box, and now that I found Dev-C++, I am ditching Borland 5.02 in favor of better software and am glad I am able to upgrade the compiler independent of the IDE. I have also introduced about 5 co-workers & fellow CS students to the software, so Dev-C++ is definitely getting passed around. Keep up the good work.
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I am not too familar with how the IDE and Mingw are integrated,so this may not even apply, but I am submitting this siggestion. Have the IDE separate from the compiler (if possible) and have it use the exisiting Mingw on the system. That way, if we so desire, we can upgrade Mingw if we choose without having to wait for a new Dev-C++ version to come out. This suggestion obviously only applies if they are integrated (and on the Win32 version). As I understand reading the docs on the linux beta, the IDE merely uses the existing GCC on the system.
Thanks
Do this:
1) download and extract the latest mingw
2) in dev-c open compiler options
3) set the bin directory to the newly extracted mingw's bin dir
4) set the rest of the dirs to (.) a period.
Mingw has a built in search path it will use to find the libs. Note thats for the libs that come with it. If you download an extra lib from somewhere you may need to add it's path accordingly.
I just upgraded to MinGW 2.00 (GCC3.2)
Everything is working much better.
Cool, I was hoping to get an answer like that. I do my of my programming on Unix boxes with GCC, but at times I only have access to a Windows box, and now that I found Dev-C++, I am ditching Borland 5.02 in favor of better software and am glad I am able to upgrade the compiler independent of the IDE. I have also introduced about 5 co-workers & fellow CS students to the software, so Dev-C++ is definitely getting passed around. Keep up the good work.