IDE for MinGW with SVN support - c++

I would like to compile with MinGW on Windows. I am seeking for IDE (Visual Studio 2010 is out, because as far as I know it cannot use MinGW) with integrated SVN support like AnkhSVN plugin for Visual Studio 2010. One candidate is CodeBlocks. Does it have some SVN plugin? Or would you recommend another IDE? Thank you.

You can use Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers.
With the subclipse plugin you have accesses to svn as well
Link: http://eclipse.org/downloads/moreinfo/c.php

I use Eclipse with CDT, and SVN integration is very good.

I'm all for Eclipse CDT, it rocks.
However, you did mention you wanted something more lightweight.
A popular Windows and Linux alternative is Code::Blocks (http://www.codeblocks.org/).
Its a great open source C/C++ IDE and even comes bundled with MinGW.
EDIT: Also has SVN support, according to http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/7

You can also try netbeans, most people in my company use it now and they say it's faster than eclipse.
I still use eclipse, but since you don't want it you may want to try netbeans with svn plugin.

try http://qt.nokia.com/products/developer-tools
It was written for Qt but it can also be used for plain C++. Furthermore it has great support for CMake (if you are like me and do not like qmake).

I use Eclipse CDT at our school, the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe AZ. One of our students put together a package that's an all-in-one version of Eclipse CDT (Helios at the moment. Indigo real soon now.) + Subclipse + Boost + cppunit. It is targeted at Windows 7 only. If you wish, you can download this self extracting executable at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/341940/cdt.exe

I'm very partial to CodeLite. You can use it on Windows and Linux. It has support for Subversion, Qt, and wxWidgets.
http://www.codelite.org/Main/ReadMore

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Eclipse for C++ Windows 7 64-bit PC

I am using 64-bit Windows 7 PC and I want to develop C/C++ programs using Eclipse IDE.
I have tried DOSBox but it was not working for me. Also, I din't liked it as well.
I just want to use Eclipse for the same. I tried using CDT Plugin in Eclipse but that doesn't worked.
When I create a new C++ project, there are different Tool Chains available - Cross GCC, Microsoft Visual C++, MinGW GCC. I really don't know what exactly it is. I tried all but I am getting error and snapshot attached :-
Basically, it is not able to detect what iostream, stdio, cout is.
I tried different solutions available on other posts but none worked for me.
I don't know what to do with it. I know I am having problem due to 64-bit Windows but I want to fix this now. Please help!
You need to install MinGW, and then select the MinGW toolchain when selecting a new project.
Well I tried different tool chains on Eclipse IDE, but nothing worked.
Then I installed CodeBlocks IDE and plugins for the same as well.
Sic: Now, I am running C/C++ codes on Code Blocks perfectly.
You need to download MinGW and install the C++ compiler, don't forget to add the MinGW bin to the system variables under "path".
I recommend you using Visual Studio Code. If you do install Visual Studio Code, make sure to install Code Runner plugin to make running C++ projects easier.

using codelite with scons

How difficult is to use codelite on top of a scons project?
what features i should expect to lose? is there a way to configure codelite to use the scons configuration files to keep track of the project files.
At the moment i'm using Netbeans 7.1, but the tool doesn't scale well with complex projects like LLVM. I'm curious with codelite as it seems to have a very good code completion architecture (relying on the llvm clang plugin) but i'm not sure how hard will it be to migrate my project (based on scons) to it
I dont know anything about codelite, but eclipse is an excellent IDE with code completion like you mention. There is an SCons plugin available for eclipse called SConsolidator.
I have found that eclipse has excellent support for C++ and Python.
Why not?
But codelite is old-school IDE with very poor functional, like Visual Studio 6. I recommend use Eclipse CDT.

What IDE should I use for experimenting with the Chromium source code

According to http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxEclipseDev
"Developing Chrome with Eclipse/CDT is fairly unpolished."
Which IDE would be polished and provide a more favourable experience?
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10.
You could try Monodevelop. As far as I know, it supports Visual Studio projects which can be generated by the Chromium build system.

Cross Platform C++ Tool Chain

Hello I am putting together a tool chain on my windows Box for Cross Platform C++ Development. I plan on using Boost.Build for building and Boost::Test for unit testing. I will be using Mercurial for my VCS because I can just throw the repo on my external HD and then pull it to either my windows or linux partition. The main thing standing in my way is editor compiler/debugger. Anyone have any suggestions?
With Boost.Build I can technically build with whatever compilers it supports easily. That means MSVC on windows and GCC on linux by using the same script with a flag.
Qt Creator using MinGW on Windows and the GNU compiler on Linux. That's what I use and it works perfectly well. Note that you don't have to use Qt when developing with Qt Creator.
May I suggest CMake on Windows and Linux as you can generate native Visual Studio projects as well as Eclipse CDT projects and plain-old makefiles.
If you are targeting multiple platforms, but find yourself primarily developing on a single platform, I highly recommend a continuous build/integration system to ensure a check-in for one platform does not break the build on the others.
Code::Blocks is a free, open source, cross platform C++ IDE. It supports the MS and GCC compilers, among others.
The main thing standing in my way is
editor compiler/debugger. Anyone have
any suggestions?
Yes: Qt Creator as one download and install will satisfy your three requests -- pick the 'LGPL' license route and download and install the SDK which even installs gcc, g++, ... for you. The integrated debugger is very good, and you get cross-platform behavior from both your code and your tools.
you can use gcc/g++ on windows as well. as for debuggers: gdb and ddd might be in cygwin. editor: vim (beware: it's really a programmable editor, not an IDE).
Vim, gdb, gcc/g++, makefile - you can use them on both - Windows and Unix :)
Yet another vote for Code Blocks or Qt Creator.
There are commercial tools too: beside Visual Studio there are MagicC++ (IDE), debuggers like TotalView, Allinea, Zero-bugs, UndoDB ... if you want to stay with VStudio check these VSBridge and WinGDB.
Anyway you can always use MSVC on Windows and other tools on Unix (gdb/DDD for debugging, vim/emacs for edition) - I've worked in this way a lot of years. Common environment for all platforms is nice, but sometimes it is very hard (almost impossible) to "force" it in company (especially big-company) ;-)

Do I really need Visual Studio

Do I really need Visual studio to build c/C++ application on Windows.
Is there any way to have makefiles and get the application built.
You can use any compiler that'll target Windows (for example, MinGW, Digital Mars, Comeau or others). All of them can be driven by the command line so you can use your preferred make utility (or other build utility).
That said, Visual Studio is pretty nice (even the free version). And don't forget that it installs the command line compiler tools, so you can drive it from a makefile as well (unfortunately, it won't spit out a makefile for you anymore, but it has it's own command line tools to drive a build based on project settings if you want to jump from IDE to command line builds).
If you want to stick to the Microsoft toolchain but don't want the IDE, you can use cl and link to build from the command line in conjuction with either the MSBUILD system or NMAKE.
If you don't have the compiler it is available free with VC++ Express.
To install the Microsoft compiler without installing an IDE download the Windows SDK which is available for free.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_SDK
Qt is very nice, and downloading and installing the SDK gets you the QtCreator which provides a consistent IDE across platforms, with very nice builtin help, build system, access to revision control, debugging, ... and it even includes the MinGW compiler and toolchain for you.
MinGW is something simpler: the usual GNU toolchain but setup such that it provides native Windows binary.
Last but not least, there is Cygwin which gives you the most Unixy flavour.
No, you don't.
I know you said c, but you can also check out MonoDevelop, should you choose to do more than just that: http://monodevelop.com/Download
No you do not. There are many free IDE's out there, or you can do everything from the command line with a non-microsoft compiler.
www.bloodshed.net offers a pretty good IDE that uses the Mingw compiler.
You can even do without extra tools as long as you have the compilers on your machine. Take a look here for an explainatin:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235639.aspx
Not at all. It is quite possible to do Win32 programing, including OS and GUI programming, with gcc from Mingw.
For all my hobby work, if I can I use the gcc compiler from Mingw (for C or Ada), with Emacs as my IDE and gnumake for my build system. There are good Mingw ports for all the major revision control systems too, including Git.
That's the toolset I used to create the SETI#Home Service, which was a wrapper for the SETI#Home client that installed and ran it as a Windows service, did failure detection and auto restarts, and had a built in web server for monitoring. All that with no VisualStudio.
You can use Eclipse with C/C++ Development Toolkit and with Mingw Compilers. the only problem is that you will not have M$ Stuff like MFC, but you can use QT or wxWindows
Two solutions that immediately come to mind:
Cygwin
MinGW
Using makefiles does not prevent you from using the Microsoft C++ compiler, which is nice if you want to use the VS debugger.