Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:49:40 01/02/03
Sorry to bother you with this half off-topic post, but I know there are Linux
fans here, and maybe they can help me.
And after all it's all about a chess program!
I want to port Chess Tiger to Linux, and release it as a free engine (without
sources). Later I hope to make a commercial product out of it, when enough
people start to use Linux (will take anywhere between 2 and 10 years).
But right now here is my problem: I am running RedHat Linux 8.0. I don't want to
use another distribution. I have chosen it because it has the biggest market
share (sorry, I know I am commercially-biased).
I'm looking for a good IDE to run on my RH8.
At this time I only need to develop console mode programs.
I have tried RHIDE (the IDE I am using since 5 years under DOS/Windows and that
allowed me to develop the 32 bits version of Chess Tiger).
Unfortunately RHIDE (1.4.9, latest available version from the author) does not
work under RH8. Under X (in xterm or konsole for example), most key assignments
do not work (impossible to select text with Shift-Arrow for example). In a pure
text console, it displays garbage (looks like the foreground/background color
combinations are interpreted by the console as page code changes or something
like that). Ugly.
So I'm out of luck with RHIDE.
I have tried Kdevelop (2.1.3, comes with RH8).
It looks like Kdevelop has bugs. The first thing I have tried is to compile a
simple "Hello world" program. Actually the IDE itself generates exactly that
program by default when you select a console mode application. The generated
program runs fine right after generating it.
If you change the program and insert an error, things start to go wrong.
Clicking on the error message in the bottom window should open the source code.
It does not. The IDE says that it cannot find the source (actually it tries to
load it from the wrong directory). Moving source files around does not help.
Either the compiler will not find them, or the editor will not find them.
I stopped evaluating Kdevelop at that point. If they have not found that bug,
then they most probably have not used their IDE at all and I'm really afraid of
the other bugs they have left there.
So what IDE are using the people who develop C programs under Linux?
Christophe
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