Hello, its something ive wanted to do for a while. create an IDE for dev c++, not because the one it comes with is bad but id like to make one alot smaller to run on lower power machines. What is required/ do i have to do to make an IDE for Dev c++. Thanks in advance
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As Wayne said Dev-C++ is not a compiler, it is and IDE. The compiler is a separate project, and by far the larger component of the "Dev-C++ with toolchain package". if you want to write an IDE do so; for whatever compiler you want to use it with.
I would suggest that for its functionality, Dev-C++ is already pretty small. It is the toolchain that is large, and that is not something you will fix by writing yet another IDE! The download for Dev-C++ alone is 2.2Mb, whereas the combined Dev-C++/MinGW package is 7.7Mb (and a far larger proportion of MinGW is highly compressible that Dev-C++, so installed MinGW is an even larger proportion.)
There are smaller compilers - at least for C, perhaps not C++. I take it that writing a new compiler is not what you intended!? I suggest that unless the subject interests you, it is a pointless effort other than as an academic exercise.
Clifford
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Hello, its something ive wanted to do for a while. create an IDE for dev c++, not because the one it comes with is bad but id like to make one alot smaller to run on lower power machines. What is required/ do i have to do to make an IDE for Dev c++. Thanks in advance
Sorry forgot to mention im using version 4.9.9.2
Why would yoou want to make an IDE for Dev-C++. That is ALL Dev-C++
is, an IDE. It uses an OLD version of the MinGW version of the GCC compiler.
If you want to build an IDE, why not build one for a current version of MinGW/GCC?
Wayne
As Wayne said Dev-C++ is not a compiler, it is and IDE. The compiler is a separate project, and by far the larger component of the "Dev-C++ with toolchain package". if you want to write an IDE do so; for whatever compiler you want to use it with.
I would suggest that for its functionality, Dev-C++ is already pretty small. It is the toolchain that is large, and that is not something you will fix by writing yet another IDE! The download for Dev-C++ alone is 2.2Mb, whereas the combined Dev-C++/MinGW package is 7.7Mb (and a far larger proportion of MinGW is highly compressible that Dev-C++, so installed MinGW is an even larger proportion.)
There are smaller compilers - at least for C, perhaps not C++. I take it that writing a new compiler is not what you intended!? I suggest that unless the subject interests you, it is a pointless effort other than as an academic exercise.
Clifford