Re: [Dev-C++] What have I done this time? A wxDevC++ adventure.

[Reid T. <rei...@at...>]

Alfred P. Reaud wrote:

> If you haven't installed Msys <http://www.mingw.org/msys.shtml> and 
> MinGW <http://www.mingw.org/> yet, I highly recommend you do so.  Unix 
> is the language for software development, and both of those installs 
> give you Unix capability on Win OS.  Install MinGW first, then Msys, 
> though.   Lots of useful command line utilities, with an rvxt window 
> and a command capability that makes DOS look ridiculous.  An example 
> from a piece of software I am currently working on that generates test 
> files is: "find . -name xxx -exec cp {} /d/yyy/ /;"  Lets see DOS do 
> that!  That last character is actually a backslash but html won't 
> allow it as it escapes the next character.  A very important caveat 
> here is that in that rvxt window, you are no longer under the control 
> of Microsoft and commands like rm -r * will destroy your system if 
> operated on from the wrong folder.  Be warned in advance, as Unix 
> doesn't F... around.

if you've not already done so, you should check out www.cygwin.com -- 
Dev-Cpp is compatible with the cywin environment also --- i.e. you can 
configure it to switch to and from either the MINGW env that comes with 
it, or the cygwin env  -- cygwin pretty much gives you a full posix env 
on windows.( just be sure to select all the packages that you want from 
the installer).