From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wally Lepore Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: IDE versus emacs Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 18:16:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83d30y87yi.fsf@gnu.org> <83626q7zvk.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1349401824 23692 80.91.229.3 (5 Oct 2012 01:50:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 01:50:24 +0000 (UTC) To: Eli Zaretskii , help-gnu-emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 05 03:50:27 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TJx3M-0005tv-UI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:50:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50802 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJtik-0005cK-D2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52518) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJtie-0005bM-UO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJtid-00043m-OZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:16:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vc0-f169.google.com ([209.85.220.169]:39531) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TJtia-00041z-IK; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:16:32 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-vc0-f169.google.com with SMTP id fl17so1446236vcb.0 for ; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:16:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=yyxldvUmPwr+75HECoBQdLfPzpwt+WJR0M7E35Qh+Z8=; b=YVmfYpfkQZVSPymHn4wYNUD6U96QrpRnmAsxtebOE7HmsfhT7lphLZjD7VxbDDOlmV kZ9FqDRXgAeWlUdnKga1MICazcGAuoXMtREQNhXlKpCAhXuDVuPgqH8ruOAOXSA6UTiq TQt7nthaxMgyDfUXtZezmfNToFrtDEEYgIHBWo6o45qEHNEcwAGfAMhHNE14j1/M0X0J ztPFUgTLkL+xKVFNtJfHNLpSkRTVR0+bVEJyb2wyU/vmhj5f9wO9fclcJ1AoFssvJBeQ TStxecyGIxn0gZS8c69jHvCOmFBGqC9kCtUdTOC2Xs+eqRVhkHIk8re5nITNcF8HzELA YQow== Original-Received: by 10.52.97.130 with SMTP id ea2mr3305359vdb.109.1349388991939; Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:16:31 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.58.143.112 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Oct 2012 15:16:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83626q7zvk.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.220.169 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87048 Archived-At: On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 15:41:23 -0400 >> From: Wally Lepore >> >> Thank you Eli. Yes this sure looks like the real deal for sure. Thank >> you very much. However I will most certainly have further questions >> after this initial reply please and would like to know if this is the >> proper mailing list to continue on with this thread/question? > > The MinGW mailing list, mingw-users@lists.sourceforge.net, is a much > better place, since your questions have little to do with Emacs. Thank you. I just signed-up and will post there. >> I found the separate download for GDB here -> >> http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/download/ > > These are sources. You will be much better off with precompiled > binaries. Ok, thank you. I will research and study. >>> I recommend to look on the MinGW site first, and then here: >>> >>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ >> >> Yes I see lots of files. I have no idea what they are utilized for but >> I will study and find out. > > There's a README there to help. Yes I did see that README earlier. Thank you. Reading it now. >> Will the set-up scenario you kindly discussed above be too >> overwhelming for a newbie programmer like myself or would I be better >> off simply starting with installing an IDE already set-up to run on >> win32 platform such as Code::Blocks, Code Lite, lcc-win32 etc.where >> all procedures are accomplished in the same window? > > MinGW comes with an installer, I suggest you use it. Ok, thank you. I appreciate your time and help.