i've been asked to teach a C++ class later this month where all of the students will have their own windows laptops and there's still some debate as to what they'll have to install to have a usable C++ development environment. and not surprisingly, i'd like to have something equivalent on my linux system, so what options are there for a dev env that works on both? i can obviously install gnu gcc/g++ on windows with mingw, and for a cross-platform IDE, it looks like i can use scite: http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html unless i'm told the students will have visual studio. but are there other alternatives i should look at if i have some input into this? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================