What you search for is probably a IDE which not really comes with cygwin.. If you really want to go the hard "GNU way" of developing sofware with the autotools and ideally xemacs/emacs(or even vim?:-) you may install cygwin and have a look at some nice tutorial i found: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~iam/docs/tutorial.html -most efficient with large unix Projects -long learning phase(no help with linker stuff in here..)
For a IDE, look at Bloodsheds DevCpp(also GNU licensed i think): http://www.bloodshed.net/ -Creates nice dependencies/Makefiles from the DevCpp Project-Files. -Convert existing VC++ Projects into its own Project-Files. -Installs new libraries(incl.+lib.) with a Packagemanager. -Provides Templateprojects with predefined linker options for nearly every Package. -Provides Documentation(often WinHelp Files with F1 on the word) for many packages. -Comes with the Mingw compiler(although cygwin conf. possible). -Builtin frontend for gdb(debugger). -VC++-like intellisense(also try Strg-Click on something in the code) -Classbrowser -etc.. If you have to learn C++ from scratch and are searching for a free GNU-IDE, maybe you should try this one first. Hope this helps... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
