Hi Jens,
I always have trouble understanding the fine differences between Cygwin's gcc (uses probably pristine gcc source with Cygwin's POSIX layer) and mingw (a real port to Windows?). I really wonder why porting attempts to Windows are not already part of gcc source ...
Beats me :)
Replacing string in a file? The VS2005 IDE :)
And via script?
No need - from the VS2005 IDE I can do find/replace for anything.
I'm a Windows kind of guy ;) When I'll have a decent debugger on Linux (gdb on a scale from 1 to 10 , gets 1; ddd on a scale from 1 to 10, gets 3.5), I might consider having a dual boot. Until then...
I use gdb's command line interface and understand you :-) I suggest you try out Eclipse together with the CDT (C/C++) module. CDT 4.0 made a big progress, it is fully graphical, cross platform, ... IDE. It's really great. It doesn't always work properly with a free Java implementation as found in many Linux distributions but now that Java is relicensed to GPL there will be a lot of progress.
The last time I indexed Boost trunk I got only a single parser exception (which I reported of course). So jumping to a definition of a class, and other code navigation works quite good (but not yet perfect).
I don't have too much of a problem with editors, my true problem is a debugger. The gdb is sooooo bad, that the info I get from it is just useless. So I end up doing logging and stuff. And it's kind of funny to do logging to debug a logging library :) Best, John -- http://John.Torjo.com -- C++ expert http://blog.torjo.com ... call me only if you want things done right