Looking For a Simple IDE for C++ : Othor Games

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:56 pm

Hi all. I'm looking for a simple IDE for C++. i can't get visual C++ installed because I don't have the latest version of windows installer installed, I'm not really sure how to install it, and I'm having a hard time with eclipse. I also need it to work on linux as well is there an IDE someone could recommend me?

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:31 am

Well, there's always Code::Blocks. Don't know of many that also run on Linux.. This one should, judging by the download links on the official site.

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:43 am

Ok any other suggestions for IDEs?

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 9:34 am

Code::Blocks or Visual C++ are the most commonly preferred ones, personally I use Visual Studio.

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:35 am

Visual Studio is a great IDe though not for Linux. I think NetBeans supports C++ and I know it is on linux. I think also KomodoEdit is the same.

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:35 am

I currently use eclipse on my xubuntu machine and I wouldn't really recommend it. Compared to Visual Studio it's pretty terrible. I find it has a lot of performance issues, it tends to lock up temporarily fairly frequently for unknown reasons. I was never a fan of NetBeans on windows (again, not great compared to VS), but it may be a decent option on a linux machine. Code::Blocks is probably a good choice if you want something lightweight and simple, I might give it a go myself one of these days.

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:42 pm

Is there an IDE that works similar to visual studios or could I try running visual studios in WINE?

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:28 pm

To be honest, Visual Studio is the best IDE I've ever used. Code::Blocks is a pretty good lightweight editor but I never really liked it.

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:06 am

To be honest, Visual Studio is the best IDE I've ever used. Code::Blocks is a pretty good lightweight editor but I never really liked it.

Could I try running Visual Studios in WINE?

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:45 am

You can try but the newest version I believe uses WPF which will work poorly if at all under Wine.

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:38 pm

You could go the old Vim/emacs + command-line way, but that'd take some getting used to. You could also just use a normal text editor like Gedit or Kate with the command-line. The only C++ IDE on linux that I liked was Code::Blocks. But I much prefer Visual Studio.

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:44 am

Is there an IDE that works similar to visual studios. I tried code::blocks and netbeans and when I tried to write code in them they give me a ton of errors.

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:51 pm

Is there an IDE that works similar to visual studios. I tried code::blocks and netbeans and when I tried to write code in them they give me a ton of errors.

Are they compiler errors?

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:54 am

You could go the old Vim/emacs + command-line way, but that'd take some getting used to. You could also just use a normal text editor like Gedit or Kate with the command-line. The only C++ IDE on linux that I liked was Code::Blocks. But I much prefer Visual Studio.

If he is trying to learn C++ he probably doesn't need to try and learn Vim at the same time. It is not fun.

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:37 pm

They gave me syntax errors and ERROR cout cannot be resolved

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:10 am

Well we're gonna need more info on the syntax errors. But the cout cannot be resolved error means you're either not including a #include somewhere OR not using a using namespace statement.

Example:

#include using namespace std;int main() {    cout << "Hello World";}

Edit: cout is a class. std is a namespace. cout is a part of the namespace std. You can also access cout by typing std::cout.

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 2:24 pm

I typed both #include and using namespace std but it still gives me Error cout cannot be resolved.

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:57 pm

I typed both #include and using namespace std but it still gives me Error cout cannot be resolved.

What was the syntax error then?

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:42 am

What was the syntax error then?

It was the hello world after cout.

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:46 am

Could you post your code exactly how it is?

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:37 pm

#include
using namespace std;

void main(){
cout<<"Hello World"<}

It said both cout and endl could not be resolved. I forgot to mention that I wrote this in Eclipse.

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 11:23 am

I typed both #include and using namespace std but it still gives me Error cout cannot be resolved.

~~did you mix up the {} and () ?~~
looks like you didn't mix them up

you might need to install the libraries associated with c++, no clue what they would be called though

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:22 pm

libstdc++ i think

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:29 pm

Is this the reason why I have been getting so many cannot be resolved and syntax errors?

» Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:01 pm

Syntax errors aren't from the lack of the library. The cannot be resolved errors would be though.