software developement kits

[Codekid]

so i've been in kubuntu for a while and got it to a nice stable place, all things considered, i want to get back into my C++ and java projects without resorting to trying to use everything via wine, and i was wondering if there were any good linux based developement kits that work well with kubuntu. anyone know of any?

p.s. i was thinking of possibly running solaris as a second operating system on my machine, anyone have any opinions about solaris?

[askrieger]

Re: software developement kits

For KDE development install the Kdevelop package. For cross-platform (e.g. works in MS) GUI development try Qt with the qt-sdk package. Qt is a C++ toolkit. KDE is written in Qt.

For Java, you can use the sun-java6-jdk package. In all three cases, you will need (nearly) all of the suggested packages, as well.

[blackpaw]

Re: software developement kits

Yes, KDevelop is quite good for C++ development. QtCreator is also excellent for C++ Qt/KDE development. Both KDevelop and QtCreatore are fully integrated IDE's

For Java you can't go past NetBeans, IMHO the best Java IDE at the moment. It also supports C++ & QT development

[GreyGeek]

Re: software developement kits

IMO, on a Linux platform that features KDE4, which is built using the Qt4 API. the tool of choice would be QtCreator. It is as, or more powerful, feature for feature, than MSVSC++. The API is extremely well documented. NO OTHER Linux GUI RAD tool in Linux is as well documented and with over 200 sample programs in all sorts of categories menu linked in the tool! Here is the Qt 4.6 API.

It is in the repository, or one can download the SDK from Nokia.
http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/qt-cre...nux-x11-32-bit
http://qt.nokia.com/downloads/qt-cre...nux-x11-64-bit

Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G4U7QWRajg

Beginner tutorial, one of many on the web: http://sector.ynet.sk/qt4-tutorial/
Youtube QtCreator videos: http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...+tutorial&aq=1
And, Nokia has a QtCreator forum: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.ph...ory:Qt_Creator
An excellent independent Qt forum is: http://www.qtcentre.org/content/

The SAME source code written on Linux to run natively on Linux can be copied to Windows and compiled with QtCreator on Windows to produce native Windows executables. On both platform QtCreator works the same and the programs developed have the same look and feel, for cross-platform consistency. IOW, you support only one code base.

The last five years at work before I retired was a joy because of the fun in programming with Qt4.