It looks like Code::Blocks (http://www.codeblocks.org/) would be right up your alley as well - it even includes some (limited) support for cross-compatibility with Visual Studio projects. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> wrote: > > 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 > ======================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > -- Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb