On 6 September 2012 at 20:01, Jim Bell wrote:

On 9/6/2012 8:07 AM, Lars Viklund wrote:

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On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 11:51:25AM +0100, Paul A. Bristow wrote:

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Seems a hassle to get a recent compiler like g++ 4.7 or Clang on Windows (default is gcc 3.4.4).

You can trivially acquire a gcc-4.7+ or clang-3.x from mingw-w64, or a gcc-4.6-ish from TDM.

Whether they and their gdb meshes into the ad-hoc madness interfaces that GCC-using IDEs, that's a different thing of course.

They work reasonably well for me with Qt Creator which I resort to when I have to do C++.

Eclipse CDT was utterly about a year ago, with multi-second pauses as you type into a C++ source file, eventually resulting in "internal error while displaying internal error".

I switched from Eclipse to QtCreator a year or two ago. Both very cool (I heard JavaBeans was too), but QtCreator was just a teensy bit cooler, faster, and took 1/10th the memory footprint (which mattered on a big project's parallel build on my old 4GB RAM machine). Haven't looked back.

Some time ago I developed Boost.Build Plugin for Qt Creator https://github.com/mloskot/qt-creator-plugin-boostbuild It's a prototype or an early stage, but ready to give it a go, I'd say. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net