Development Environment Change

Because of a job requirement, I had to install 64-bit Linux on my computer (I chose Kubuntu 10.10, Maverick Meerkat). So development of this project will be moved over to 64-bit Linux, at least for the time being. Since so far, the program only has a simple command line interface (no GUI), this won't cause an immediate problem. The releases will still be tested under Windows XP as I have a Windows XP virtual machine running on Kubuntu. Perhaps when the time comes to start on the GUI, a common tool set will chosen, something like Qt.

For the moment, this will also give the opportunity to present how to set up Windows to be able to build the project since this virtual machine is a new Windows installation and not a clone of my of my previous Windows installation. A lot of things were originally tried and listing the procedure that finally worked in the end was probably impossible.

Also possibly changing will be the actual development tools that will be used. Under consideration is changing the version control system (from cvs to git), the IDE (from NetBeans 6.9.1 to newer version 7.0, which has a plug-in for git, or possibly to the Eclipse CDT IDE), and the build system to build the project (from NetBeans' make system and standalone make file currently distributed with the project to the cmake build system). Each of these will be explained in the posts that follow...