Thanks a lot for the great information - I was wondering about what I needed to give my cheesy little programs a GUI..... ncurses will probably work just fine for me. As far as "make", that's pretty much not useful for a program using only a single source file, right? Also, what about LINT? I'm not all that familiar with it, but it sounds like a syntax checker, or some such thing for C programs? Any other .deb packages that can make programming easier for a relative newbie?
Brad wrote: > > Also for C, you'll need the header files for any libraries you use. This > means you want to download the libc6-dev package, the stdc++??-dev > (??==2.10 for potato, i don't know for slink) if you program in C++. If > you do X programming, xlib6[g?]-dev is good, as well as the -dev package > for qt, gtk, or whatever you want. If you'd rather do a GUI in ncurses, > get that -dev package. And so on and so on and so on ;) > > If you can get them figured out, the GNU autoconf and automake tools are > wonderful for making a full-featured makefile. For a small, single source > file project these might be overkill though. > > For C manpages, check the manpages-dev package. Also, remember that the > 'manual' for some headers is in the header file itself. If worst comes to > worst, RTFS ;)
