Re: [Tuxmath-devel] Math Command

[Haakon M. E. <ha...@nh...>]

Hi David!

You can use Dev-C++ from Bloodshed.net as a free (as in freedom) IDE for GNU 
GCC and GNU GDB on Windows. You need to create a project, add files to the 
project, and setup the project - which files to include - like libsdl and so 
on. 

There are a number of option tabs when setting up a project, so if you get 
stuck figuring out how to setup the IDE, one thing to keep in mind is how C 
programms are made in general - preprocessing, compiling, optimizing, 
assembly and linking. If you know in which step you are supposed to be, it is 
a lot easier to find where to put the relevant options.

It's been a couple of years since I did it - I wanted to compile a version of 
TuxMath with backgrounds images of my family - kind of primitive "themeing" - 
to engage my son - keep it personal and interesting. It worked great at the 
time, but sadly the hard drive is no longer available so I can't just send 
you a copy of the project. 

My son is a lot older now (8) and doing well in math, so TuxMath the way I 
remember it is not really something he would like to play anymore. If someone 
where to make a drill program like TuxMath using Tremulous or BZFlag it might 
be a different story. Then _I_ would like to play too! :-D

References:
http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/devcpp.html
http://www.tremulous.net/index.php?section=shots
http://www.bzflag.org/screenshots/


Wednesday 13 September 2006 15:21, David Bruce wrote:

>
> AFAIK all of the Windows builds available in various places on the web are
> very old.  I would be *extremely* interested in getting the current version
> built for Windows, but I don't have much relevant experience and so far
> have not been able to get a Windows build environment set up properly.