Eclipse, code-blocks, or Visual Studio

[herrybiscuit]

which one do you guys use? im not planing on changing the one i use but just asking.

[Dy7SLyTq]

code::blocks when i have to, but otherwise notepad++ with mingw or vim with cygwin

[Thumper]

Visual Studio if the microsoft compilers didn't suck so much.
So, Sublime Text.

[herrybiscuit]

yeah, but i rather have multiplatform support

[Thumper]

I can agree with that. If I were to code on Windows I would use visual studio if the compilers supported C++11 as much as gcc or clang do. Instead I use Sublime Text and just compile via command line

[ResidentBiscuit]

Well VS is most definitely not multiplatform. It's a fantastic IDE, though. Code:Blocks is pretty great as well. Eclipse is just awful for C++ support IMO. It works pretty well for Java though.

[herrybiscuit]

well im useing eclipse and its easier for opengl type of stuff. if codeblocks worked easier with opengl i would use it.

plus i wish code-blocks was updated

[ResidentBiscuit]

How is it any easier for that? That's all just getting your linker settings right.

[herrybiscuit]

for code-blocks opengl is C as default (i think)

[htirwin]

I'm using OpenGL with code blocks. Don't choose the OpenGL template, just make an empty project, link the necessary libraries and add the right search paths in build options.

[herrybiscuit]

is there a tutorial for that somewhere?

[ResidentBiscuit]

for code-blocks opengl is C as default (i think)

That made no sense at all.

[herrybiscuit]

yeah now that i think about that i agree that it doesn't make any sense

[htirwin]

is there a tutorial for that somewhere?

What's your operating system?

[herrybiscuit]

64 bit windows 7

[htirwin]

Here is how I set it up for my project using SFML, GLEW, and openGL.

I made a folder in C:, which I called usr. Inside that folder I made a folder called include, and a folder called lib. Just a place to put libs and header files.

I downloaded SFML, and copied the folder called SFML which holds the SFML headers into C:/usr/include. I copied all of SFML's lib files into C:/usr/lib.

Then I downloaded GLEW, and I put the header files in C:/usr/include/GL, and libs in C:/usr/lib).

I chose C:/usr/include, and C:/user/lib, because linux has locations with similar names. There may be a better place in windows to put this stuff, I don't know.

Also on windows you need to put dll's provided by SFML and GLEW in the same location as your executable. I guess in your code blocks project folder in bin/Debug, and bin/Release.

Then in code blocks, in project->build options, select your whole project on the left, not just debug or release, and then click on linker settings. Add

glew32s
opengl32
glu32
sfm-graphics
sfml-window
sfml-system

, and any other sfml libs you want under Link Libraries. Then in search directories, I added c:/usr/lib under Linker, and c:/usr/include and my code::blocks project folder under compiler.

In compiler options I also selected have gcc follow C++11 or something like that.

My main.cpp looks something like this,

#include <windows.h>
#define GLEW_STATIC
#include <GL/glew.h>
#include <SFML/OpenGL.hpp>
#include <SFML/Window.hpp>
//#include various standard libraries
//some constants

int main() {

    sf::Window window(sf::VideoMode(WIDTH, HEIGHT), 
                      "SFML OpenGL", 
                      sf::Style::Default, 
                      sf::ContextSettings(24, 8, 4, 4, 0)); 
//last two parameters of cont. set. are openGL major and minor versions, 
//in this case, OpenGL 4.0

    glewExperimental = true;
    if (glewInit() != GLEW_OK)
        return -1;

    bool quite = false;
    while (! quit) {
        sf::Event event;
        while(window.pollEvent(event)) {
            if (event.type == sf::Event::Closed)
                quit = true;
        }
        //use sfml keyboard and mouse input stuff
        //use sfml clock stuff for timer

        //game.update(/*..*/);
        //game.render(/*..*/);

        window.display();
    }
    return 0;
}

Basically the same thing will work on any IDE, you just have a different GUI for specifying the libs you want to link, and the compiler and linker search directories, and other options.

[herrybiscuit]

GCC 4.7 TDM (SJLJ) or GCC 4.7 MinGW (DW2) - 32 bits SFML

[htirwin]

32 bit SFML, and GCC 4.7 MinGW, is what I am using.

The regular MinGW doesn't support developing 64 bit applications, but there is MinGW 64.

http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/

[a967Bytes]

tryied borland, devcpp, ms vs 2010, .... and more but I use :
Code::Blocks EDIT :: MinGW compiler
why? for the love of free ware and I feel that I belong to that group of programmers.

Coding with Code::Blocks make me feel more relaxed.

for mini coding I use notepad++

as for graphics I started learning SFML

[herrybiscuit]

Did you create a opengl project or empty?