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codeur:

--- Quote from: stahta01 on March 29, 2011, 07:57:30 pm ---I had the idea of making a few DevPaks for a student project( in next 2 years).
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straha01,
My university uses, and I maintain, the Code::Blocks EDU-Portable (unofficial) distribution. That one comes with libraries and project templates for simple 2D/3D graphics for C and C++ usually sought for by teachers and learners. I am interested to know what other (open source) libraries you think would be of interest in that environment. I may add them in. Exisiting devpaks often need to be rebuilt to be used with recent and more standards-compliant compilers, so I tend to ignore them.

stahta01:
@codeur:

I am doing an Senior project development Network Communication over RS232 (SLIP/PPP) in order to get two micro-controllers to exchange information. The second Micro-controller will also have a normal Network connection to serve SNMP, FTP and maybe Web Pages. Also, working on normal Computer based client software like SNMP. In order to do this, I am likely to need various libraries compiled to work with MinGW GCC C/C++ Compiler. I was thinking DevPak would be a good way to allow another person to recreate some of the PC Client Apps. The early development is planned to be on Linux or BSD based PCs. Later, I hope to move everything to Windows based environment.

The only Libraries I know that I will need will be wxWidgets and libintl. I also plan to do an DevPak for the Code::Blocks SDK; I see the possible need to add an Code::Blocks plugin to support version control system. I thought that doing DevPaks for all the libraries needed for the PC Client software (other than the standard Web Browers)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/picmicroproject/

In direct answer to your question, I think some of the Libraries on gnuwin32 would be nice.
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html

The only command that I think would be real helpful is "which"; It is helpful for trouble shooting weird Compiler Installation issues related to Windows System PATH variable.
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/which.htm

Some other libraries that sound good to me:
boost
STLPort
libcurl

Tim S.

codeur:
Thanks for the info, straha01,
CB EDU-Portable for the moment focuses on undergraduates, so offers a 1-click install. This is not viable for the long term when other requirements and several other libraries will be on offer. The download and installed size would become too large.
I am thinking more in terms of libraries selection at the time of download, with possible later updates, than in term of offering devpacks, but I still have to get to work for good on this aspect. This would also require a plugin enabling selection of the project types offered in the [Open]->[Project] screen.
In terms of library selection wxwidgets and fltk GUI libs are already there. Boost is there. GetText (including libintl) is considered. A Linux "equivalent" EDU distribution is also planned for the end of year or early 2012. Version control support (svn/git/mercurial) is also considered desirable. I see that some people are already working on this.
There is no use for "which" as the installation is fully portable (no interference with anything else on the computer), but there are other useful tools already installed.
We seem therefore to be working on CB projects with large similarities.

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