C++ Development Environments

Here are some tools students have used in past semester. Please share any installation/compilation instructions you have for your specific environment.

C++ IDEs (Integrated Development Environments)

Here are a few C++ development environments (similar to Visual Studio) that can be used with the gcc compilers:

wxDev-C++
http://wxdsgn.sourceforge.net/
Eclipse
http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/
Code::Blocks
http://www.codeblocks.org/
NetBeans
http://www.netbeans.org/features/cpp/
Anjuta
http://anjuta.sourceforge.net/

Emacs on Windows

For those of you interested in running the Emacs text editor on your Windows OS, you can download the binaries and access documentation here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html

Other text editors you may want to consider include:

VI
Vim
Textmate (commercial, OSX only)
E-texteditor (commercial, windows only)
Gedit
Programmer's Notepad (windows only)
notepad++ (windows only)