c++ programming evironment

[jdow]

From: "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler at chello.at>

> jdow <jdow <at> earthlink.net> writes:
>> It might be of interest to learn what form of output the professor
>> accepts. If development is done on a 'ix machine the source code
>> format might not be professor friendly.
> 
> Well, use ASCII (7-bit) characters only and run unix2dos on the
> sources before 
> sending/uploading them and the sources should come out as expected.

That is easy to do. But he should make sure of such things to preserve
a chance for a top grade. {^_-} Plan Ahe
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>> (Fortunately with the
>> Visual (not Virtual) C++ IDE this is not an issue.) If the professor
>> wants executable files as well then an environment that produces
>> output files suitable for a Win32 or Win64 (depending on the
>> professor's environment) would be called for.
> 
> That would be MinGW. (Creates Win32 binaries, but Win32 executables
> run on  Win64 too.)
> http://mirzam.it.vu.nl/mingw/
> Sadly, the gcc-core RPM there doesn't include g++ (the C++ compiler),
> only the 
> C compiler, so get MinGW GCC from there instead:
> http://bitwalk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/download.html

Todd should greatly appreciate that input.

{^_^}