Now I'm running lilybuntu in Sun VirtualBox from my pendrive. Successfully built LilyPond, now I start playing with kdevelop.
Thanks for the fun. Bert > Graham Percival wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 04:44:30PM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote: >>> On 6/13/09 11:39 PM, "Bertalan Fodor" <lilypondt...@organum.hu> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm sure there are tools which would make it easier for us, simple not >>>> hackers, but software engineers, grown up on Microsoft Visual Studio >>>> end >>>> Eclipse. I remember that at university I did use some ide for linux >>>> cpp >>>> development. That's why I was seeking recommendation. >>> The standard GNU answer is to use emacs to integrate your compiler, >>> debugger, etc. You can open a directory in emacs and then open any >>> file >>> from that directory, so it's useful for browsing the source, as well. >> >> That's not really what I'd recommend for windows people, though. >> I'd say two things: >> >> 1) Since this image will install a complete linux distro, you can >> install any Linux GUI programming IDE you want. >> (we should specify this in the CG where we discuss the windows >> iso) >> >> 2) I don't know what the current favorite fancy IDE is, although >> I'm fairly certain that Eclipse runs on Linux. I'm not certain if >> that would actually be good for LilyPond, though -- does it >> support C++ and makefiles? IIRC eclipse is for java stuff. >> >> (again, I'm happy to dump whatever suggestions people throw at me >> in the CG) >> > > I've never worked on C++ files, but I opened one up in Geany and > it had nice syntax highlighting plus a "build" menu with lots of > options, including targets for make, compiling, building, etc. > Geany's my favorite GUI editor and it's available for both Windows > and Linux. A developer would be better able to judge its worth as > an IDE, but I like it very much and it's easy to install from the > repos. > > BTW I've been fiddling with my Lilybuntu virtual machine and > finally figured out how to make it go fullscreen (previously I'd > only been able to view it in a 800x600 window--very annoying). > It's a bit of a trick to make this work on a virtual Linux machine > in Sun's VirtualBox. Once you get it set up, though, it's really > amazing. It's a matter of successfully installing "Guest > Additions." I don't know if you want to get into VirtualBox > issues in the CG, especially since others might use different > virtualization tools, but getting it set up properly will make a > big difference in the usability of the virtual machine. Once it's > fullscreen it looks as if it's the real OS on your computer. Very > nice. I now have my Windows VMs set up this way (much easier on > the Windows VMs to set up Guest Additions) and it's excellent for > testing. > > Jon > > -- > Jonathan Kulp > http://www.jonathankulp.com > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
