Libraries

[thepedestrian]

Hey guys I use Bloodshed as my compiler and I've found that it is missing alot of the standard libraries such as sstream.h. I was just curious, where do you guys download these libraries from? Thanks!

[Athar]

sstream.h is not part of the standard library, you're probably thinking of sstream.
Besides, both your IDE and the compiler that comes with it are outdated, so you should switch to Code::Blocks and use the bundled version of MinGW that comes with it.

[thepedestrian]

Oh I didn't know sstream.h was different from sstream. I'm guessing when you have FILE.h, it looks for header files in the libraries folder. Interesting. That does work for me. I removed the .h, and it found the header file.

See I just started desktop programming so this is all very new to me. I was checking out Code::Blocks and it seems very nice. Looks alot better than Bloodshed.

By the way, if I compile with MinGW, would the application (console application) not run on Mac's?

[Athar]

By the way, if I compile with MinGW, would the application (console application) not run on Mac's?

No, it won't. But you can just recompile it on a Mac using its native version of g++.

[thepedestrian]

So I should probably just download the standard version without the MinGW. What happens is that I don't know if my Computer Science teacher will use a Mac or a PC to run programs that I will work on. In school, and her office, both use PC but I think at home she uses a Mac. I don't want it to not compile and adversely affect my grade.

Which one would you recommend? The standard version or the version with MinGW?

[blackcoder41]

Get the package with Mingw and save yourself from head ache. You're the one going to use it anyway, not your teacher ;)

[Athar]

You can't compile anything without a compiler, so it's not like you have a choice.
Dev-C++ also comes bundled with MinGW, just with an old version (which Code::Blocks would use if you don't download the MinGW bundle).

If you don't use any platform-specific code, you can compile your program anywhere, be it on Windows, Mac, Linux or your washing machine.

[thepedestrian]

Ok thank you guys. Appreciate your help.

[Bazzy]

You could also get g++ to compile on Windows targeting a Macintosh

[blackcoder41]

Bazzy wrote:

You could also get g++ to compile on Windows targeting a Macintosh

How can I do that sir?

[Bazzy]

http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html

[garob]

What is wrong with using dev-c++ if you update the compiler and debugger and all that?

[Bazzy]

that it's still an ugly IDE

[Athar]

As far as I know, Dev-C++ doesn't even have code completion.
And that just tempts you to use short and cryptic descriptors and abbreviations.

[helios]

It kinda does but, well, it sucks.

[chrisname]

It (Dev-C++) does kind of suck as an IDE. Saying that, Code::Blocks has started to piss me off more and more since v. 10.05 was released. I like that it has code-completion and like features, but it's pretty annoying when you do this:
1.

if (expression)
        statement;

-->

if (expression)
        statement;
        function_call(); // Realise I need to add this 

-->

if (expression) { // Add braces
        statement;
        function_call();

-->

if (expression) {} // Code::Blocks adds another brace automatically
        statement;
        function_call();
        // FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU 

2. printf(Hello, world");
-->
printf("Hello, world"); // Forgot a speech mark
-->

printf(""Hello, world"); // Code::Blocks adds another " automatically
// FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU 

3.

if ((expression one))
        statement;

-->

if ((expression one) && (expression two) // Wait, this also depends on "expression two"
        statement;

-->
if ((expression one) && (expression two)

(expression two)

)

Unmatched '('

-->
// FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

You also can't disable the above features AFAIK, so I've gone back to gEdit briefly until they fix Code::Blocks.

I'll make a more exhaustive list of annoying bugs at some point and send it to them so they can fix it.

[Kyon]

Been having the "-problem with Netbeans too, but (luckily) it has no {}-completion (does have it for regular, squared and those tagging-braces). But that's cool, since they're used for things that are in a single expression on a single line, normally. () being for normal expressions, [] for array/vector/element-access stuff, <> for includes.

[Bazzy]

You can turn off the brace completion on C::B, it's on the first page of the editor settings...

[chrisname]

Oh, I looked for it but didn't see it. Still, it's useful, it just needs refining really.

[helios]

Oh, yeah? Well, sometimes I'm writing in Maxima and, say, I want to replace some text with an opening parenthesis. So, I select the text

some text selected text some other text

I hit shift-8, and...

some text (selected text) some other text

Son of a-
I'm sure there are situations where that would be useful, but I would prefer something more in line with regular text editors.