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What is your development environment?

Boder · 2014-09-01T19:41:43

I wanted to take the pulse of the different tools people are using for their projects. I've tried quite a few languages, libraries, and IDEs so I just want to see what is currently working for people (and what isn't). If you could, post: 1. Your OS 2. Target OS/Device 3. Language and IDE (or name of editor/compiler) 4. Libraries/Packages/Whatev you call 'em 5. Type of project (game/tool/2D/3D/team project/solo/free/pay) 6. Most importantly, what you don't like about the setup and also some of the highlights Thanks all. I have Windows 8 now and I'm going to be setting up some development tools. I've used many, many C/C++ IDEs, Java to a lesser extent, I only really checked out what was possible with Python and C#. Anyone using C# with OpenGL or is that unheard of? How about Java and OpenGL? C# and SDL? Is C# still only for Windows builds?

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Started by Boder August 30, 2014 11:10 PM

17 comments, last by Servant of the Lord 9 years, 7 months ago

Bregma

9,461

August 31, 2014 02:10 PM

gdb works but imperfectly, and I've never been able to get breaks on thrown exceptions

Does "catch throw" not work on MinGW?

Stephen M. Webb
Professional Free Software Developer

Abster

153

August 31, 2014 06:18 PM

1. WIndows 7

2. Windows/Mac/Linux, Sony/Nintendo

3. C++ / Visual Studio 2013

4. SDL 2.0/OpenGL

5. HD 2d platformer/shooter

6. There's a ton of features I don't quite understand in regards to debugging, meaning I end up always closing my game and recompiling it each time I want to test something. It's probably due to inexperience more than anything else.

Buckeye

10,754

August 31, 2014 09:18 PM

1. Windows 7

2. Windows 7

3. VS2013 Express for Desktop, C++

4. Win8.1 SDK, DirectX SDK (June 2010), DXTK, AntTweakBar, GPUPerfClient/Server for shader debugging if needed, DXTex, DDSView

5. game/2D/3D/solo - DX9, DX11

6. ---

Don't like: VS2013 Express crashes when closed, auto-restarts and has to be closed again. It's free, so..

Like: Intellisense, debugging interface

Please don't PM me with questions. Post them in the forums for everyone's benefit, and I can embarrass myself publicly.

You don't forget how to play when you grow old; you grow old when you forget how to play.

ngoaho91

257

September 01, 2014 06:42 AM

1. Windows 7

2. Windows 7+

3. C++, Visual Studio 2012 express, Notepad++, and hundred of small tools

4. OpenGL, OpenFramework, Qt, and hundred of small libs

5. game/2D/3D/solo/free

6. VS 2012 has high requirement but syntax highlighting is nice. It's user interface save my eyes also.

Qt could be perfect tool if it can import general c++ project from visual studio. Anyway, Qt is nice tool too.

tonemgub

2,009

September 01, 2014 07:01 AM

1. Windows 7

2. Flat Assembler :)

3. DirectX SDK

ongamex92

3,287

September 01, 2014 08:00 AM

1. Windows 7/8

2. Windows 7+. Windows Phone 8.1 + eventually linux?/macos + Iphone/android

3. C++ ICL/CL

4. d3d11, gles/gl4+. And tools Visual Studio/CMake

5. rendering framework

6. I love my tools.

godmodder

828

September 01, 2014 01:11 PM

1. Windows 8.1

2. Primarily windows machines, but I don't do anything to break Mac/Linux

3. C++ / Visual studio 2013 Ultimate

4. Boost / Qt / OpenGL / GLEW / GLFW / ...

5. Graphics research code for my PhD and 3D engines as a hobby

6. Visual Studio can be slow sometimes, but it's a price I gladly pay for its convenience.

lwm

2,518

September 01, 2014 02:59 PM

Game projects (Hobby):

1. Windows 8

2. Windows Vista+

3. C# (VS2013)

4. SharpDX, various others for specific things

5. 3D multiplayer shooter and a thousand others over the last couple of years.

Work:

1. Linux / Windows 7

2. Linux / Windows 7

3. C++11 (Eclipse), C# (VS2013)

5. A tiny piece of the software right above the hardware drivers for a very big, very expensive piece of medical technology.

I really like C++, especially C++11. But for hobby projects, that don't require that last percent of performance (or hard real-time), programming C# in Visual Studio is so much quicker and less painful.

current project: Roa

Servant of the Lord

33,739

September 01, 2014 07:41 PM

gdb works but imperfectly, and I've never been able to get breaks on thrown exceptions

Does "catch throw" not work on MinGW?

It supposedly does, but not on whatever builds I've been unfortunate enough to use. Maybe it's just the Qt's GUI interface to GBD that's buggy though, I'm not sure.

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