[Geany] Geany as Windoze noob's learning tool

Matthew Brush mbrush at xxxxx
Sun Aug 12 17:29:01 UTC 2012


On 12-08-12 07:54 AM, Ma Xiaojun wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
>> Nice!
>> However, the page seems to be in a namespace "tag" which was probably
>> not on purpose. But renaming the page isn't that hard.
>> I'd say it should live under /howtos/win32/getting-started
> I'm sorry.
> I haven't figured out a way other than duplicate the page in howtos
> and remove the origin page in tags
>
>> There is a fundamental difference: the GTK runtime is necessary to start
>> Geany at all while a Mingw/GCC environment is only helpful (not even
>> necessary) to write C code with Geany.
>> Please don't mix this.
> You know, there are enough people think that they are using
> Code::Blocks compiler, Dev-C++ compiler, Eclipse compiler or Visual
> C++ compiler.
> So you don't want "Geany compiler", right?

Right.

We could always change the default build commands for C and C++ to use 
the Microsoft compiler (cl.exe or whatever) on Windows. Then you could 
compile a C/C++ "hello world" application "out of the box".

Cheers,
Matthew Brush



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