Hey gang,
I thought I’d share this comment on my
recent blog entry on OpenGL with Vista. I
would love it if we could help this guy with his desire to use the CDT in his
environment. His current blocker is multiple tool chains and targets all in the
same Project. I’m not sure we’re there yet with the managed build system but if
we could get there, I think we’d have the ultimate environment for guys like
this.
Doug Schaefer, QNX Software Systems
Eclipse CDT Project
Lead, Tools PMC Member
From: Jon
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Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007
10:24 AM
To: dschaefer@xxxxxxx
Subject: [Doug on the Eclipse CDT]
New comment on Windows Vista versus OpenGL.
Jon
has left a new comment on your post "Windows
Vista versus OpenGL":
Hi Doug, I'm a games developer who uses Direct X on a daily basis. In some way
we're non too bothered about being able to run Direct X inside SWT as we build
all our tools in C/C++ (although we are thinking about using C# in the future).
I'm also somewhat a fan of OpenGL and my understanding is that there is nothing
stopping the hardware vendors shipping fast GL rendering in Vista, however
they're tied up with the new driver model for DX10 at the moment :-D What I am
really keenly following is moving to using eclipse as a development IDE at
work. I use eclipse at home for my tinkering projects and really enjoy using it
- I find it a better IDE than Visual Studio but at work we're tied to .Net IDE
as we use the MS toolchain. Sometimes we use the Intel compiler - will your
work with the MS Platform SDK allow us to choose to use that on Windows too -
IIRC it's command line compatible with MS's compiler? It wouldn't be too much
work to get the windows platform building for GCC either, as the PS2 and 3
ports both do. I'd love to be able to use eclipse and select between an MS, gcc
or Intel compiler for the PC build, then go for a PS3 build all from the same
workspace. Then I'd just have to integrate the XBox360 tool chain and I'd be
ecstatic. If this were possible it would be a pretty good argument for us to
look at eclipse studio wide.
Posted by Jon to Doug on the
Eclipse CDT at 10:24 AM
