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Hi, I am currently using wxDevCpp, mainly for the form editor, and they use mingw 3.4.2, which i well, old. I have stumbled across several bugs which have required ugly work arounds, and right now i have a very strange and annoying one which i just cant seem to fix. Now i assume that adding another compiler isnt too hard, just copy the new files into a directory in the same format of the one that came with devcpp, however id like to know if you (as in people with more than 3 months (me) experience programming c++) think if it would be worth upgrading. Would most of the code be likely to compile in the same manner, and assuming that ive done everything correctly, like not modifying variables between sequence points, is it likely that everything will compile in the same way. Has anyone upgraded theyre compiler and have had severe problems. My project is now quite large (about 20k lines of code) and im dreading the thought of debugging it if everything suddenly changes. Thank you.
Download and install Ubuntu.
Add the wxFormBuilder repository to your apt sources.list.
Update your package listing and install wxFormBuilder and build-essentials.
Kip
Of course it is possible to use Dev C++ with the lastest MinGW release.
From "Please Read Before Posting a Question":
Vista with a seperate MinGW installation
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1715032&forum_id=48211
That can help you even if you are using XP.
HTH
Hoop... You are using wxDevCpp and the above link refer to Dev-C++.
Sorry! but perhaps you are doing cross posting?.
Ok thank you, well put it this way i dont think it will make a huge difference whether its wxDevcpp or Devcpp, the only difference is that it has a form editor.