IDE's and contributions

[Nick]

Are you cross-compiling or doing it on Windows itself?

On windows. I hadn't thought of cross-compiling - that might work better. How do I do that?

[takkaria]

BTW, you might find http://www.netadelica.com/coding/sdl/install.html useful for getting SDL up and running on Windows.

On windows. I hadn't thought of cross-compiling - that might work better. How do I do that?

Well, cross-compiling in V (for the native Windows port) is a case of installing the cross-compiler (on Debian-based distros this is mingw32), and running

make -f Makefile.win CROSS="i586-mingw32msvc-" MINGW=yes

If you're looking at using SDL too, you want to build and install SDL into a folder somewhere, then add "-I<path to SDL headers>" to CFLAGS and the paths to the various libraries to LIBS, so something like:

LIBS=/path/to/SDL.lib /path/to/SDLmain.lib /path/to/SDL_ttf.lib

I assume, anyway. YMMV, this is just based on when I have crosscompiled to Windows using PDCurses.

[Derakon]

The Story of Mel is a description of the "canonical hacker". Real Programmer jokes are about writing software using increasingly bizarre limitations on your toolkits, e.g.

"Real Programmers use emacs."
"No, Real Programmers would never use such a bloated program. Real Programmers use ed."
"No, Real Programmers use cat. Text editors are for the weak."
"No, Real Programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand."

[Magnate]

The Story of Mel is a description of the "canonical hacker". Real Programmer jokes are about writing software using increasingly bizarre limitations on your toolkits, e.g.

"Real Programmers use emacs."
"No, Real Programmers would never use such a bloated program. Real Programmers use ed."
"No, Real Programmers use cat. Text editors are for the weak."
"No, Real Programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand."

Maybe someone here can help me unearth another gem that I once saw and cannot now find. It was a list of different approaches to "hello world", starting with the basic novice's C program and ending up with the company CEO's email to the novice saying "write me a program that says 'hello world'". In between there were a dozen different takes on it. Does this ring any bells with anyone?

[PowerDiver]

Maybe someone here can help me unearth another gem that I once saw and cannot now find. It was a list of different approaches to "hello world", starting with the basic novice's C program and ending up with the company CEO's email to the novice saying "write me a program that says 'hello world'". In between there were a dozen different takes on it. Does this ring any bells with anyone?

Google on hello world joke

[Pete Mack]

Google on hello world joke

The 'seasoned programmer' version is by far the funniest. I actually did write a hello world that was ~200 lines long, prior to a partial rewrite of the OSX port. (It had font & size selection via menu, and a few other "features" that I forget now.)

[Magnate]

Google on hello world joke

Thank you. Funny how sometimes you just can't see the obvious search term.