Re: IDE versus emacs

[Wally Lepore]

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 15:41:23 -0400
>> From: Wally Lepore <wallylepore@gmail.com>
>>
>> Thank you Eli. Yes this sure looks like the real deal for sure. Thank
>> you very much. However I will most certainly have further questions
>> after this initial reply please and would like to know if this is the
>> proper mailing list to continue on with this thread/question?
>
> The MinGW mailing list, mingw-users@lists.sourceforge.net, is a much
> better place, since your questions have little to do with Emacs.

Thank you. I just signed-up and will post there.

>> I found the separate download for GDB here ->
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/download/
>
> These are sources.  You will be much better off with precompiled
> binaries.

Ok, thank you. I will research and study.

>>> I recommend to look on the MinGW site first, and then here:
>>>
>>>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
>>
>> Yes I see lots of files. I have no idea what they are utilized for but
>> I will study and find out.
>
> There's a README there to help.

Yes I did see that README earlier. Thank you. Reading it now.

>> Will the set-up scenario you kindly discussed above be too
>> overwhelming for a newbie programmer like myself or would I be better
>> off simply starting with installing an IDE already set-up to run on
>> win32 platform such as Code::Blocks, Code Lite, lcc-win32 etc.where
>> all procedures are accomplished in the same window?
>
> MinGW comes with an installer, I suggest you use it.

Ok, thank you. I appreciate your time and help.