Overview

Elsolutions writes programs in the Java, C, and C++ languages, among others. Tools and debugging for C and C++ in Windows and Linux are discussed in this chapter. We shall cover Java in Chapter 6, “Programming: Java, Network, and the Web,” when we discuss Java and Web programming. Table 5-1 shows some of the choices for software development available to Elsolutions.

Table 5-1. Software development choices
Technology Tool Supported on Acquired from
C/C++ GNU gcc Windows www.cygwin.com
 GNU gcc Linux Linux Distributions, GNU
 Visual C/C++ Windows Microsoft (Visual C/C++)
Program Linking ld Windows 200 www.cygwin.com
 ld Linux Linux Distributions, GNU
 Visual C/C++ link.exe Windows Microsoft (Visual C/C++)
Debuggers gdb Windows www.cygwin.com ...

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