portable IDE?

Jarhmander · Post by **Jarhmander** » Thu Mar 19, 2009 8:01 pm

Recently I'm aware of portability in programs... Any (free?) portable C++ IDE for GUI programs(wxWidget?)? And also, rather than using DirectX and DirectSound, anything portable that do basically this? (Allegro? SDL?)

Anything please and simple if possible, also thanks

Bregalad · Post by **Bregalad** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:07 am

I don't know if this helps, but Code:Blocks and Eclipse are both very good and free.

Jarhmander · Post by **Jarhmander** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:50 am

Very good, thanks. I'll take a look over Code::blocks

Sorry for the badly written first post, 'was late when I wrote this. I meant that there are several free cross-platform multi-media development API like SDL, Allegro and OpenGL. Which one would you recommend me? SDL seems great but it is unfortunately written in C and I have a slight preference for object-based-only code, but it seems very easy to use. What about the others? Also, these APIs seems to provide threads, will I have trouble mixing Boost::Threads with those API or it will be fine?

Bregalad · Post by **Bregalad** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 9:54 am

I have no experience with that, but I feel like OpenGL is very widespread arround. I bet a million Tepples will come here and mention allegro because he's a hardcode fan of it, but it's really less popular I guess.

strat · Post by **strat** » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:22 pm

Allegro is a software library that wraps DirectX or X11 or insert window system. OpenGL is a standard interface for calling hardware rendering routines. They actually complement each other, since Allegro doesn't support 3d hardware.

Allegro looks promising (started using it) but I haven't looked into SDL.

Jarhmander · Post by **Jarhmander** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 2:47 pm

Bregalad wrote:I have no experience with that, but I feel like OpenGL is very widespread arround. I bet a million Tepples will come here and mention allegro because he's a hardcode fan of it, but it's really less popular I guess.

Heh, so then I'll wait here for Tepples to answer

kyuusaku · Post by **kyuusaku** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 4:55 pm

I like SDL but if WinAPI and DirectX didn't have such steep learning curves I'd rather write my own wrappers.

Jarhmander · Post by **Jarhmander** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:43 pm

I think they have such a steep learning curves because they are badly written, and MSDN is chaos

Post by **tepples** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:47 pm

Both SDL and Allegro have libraries to connect to OpenGL. I just happened to learn Allegro because my first PC ran DOS, not Windows 95.