Had another 48hr game jam this weekend...

[Manu]

On 18 September 2013 21:45, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 18 September 2013 19:44, Joseph Rushton Wakeling <
> joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> wrote:
>
>> On 18/09/13 02:45, Manu wrote:
>>
>>> The extent of my experience with QtCreator is that it has a button
>>> "Generate VS
>>> Project" in the menu, which I clicked on, and then I opened visual
>>> studio.
>>> For the few moments that I used it, I was surprised by now
>>> un-like-eclipse it
>>> looked :)
>>> Maybe it's decent? What's it's underlying project/build system?
>>> I have ex-trolltech mates who are now all unemployed... so what's the
>>> future of
>>> the tool?
>>>
>>
>> I had the impression the future was very positive, ever since Digia
>> acquired Qt from Nokia a couple of years back.
>>
>> AFAIK it can use make, cmake or qmake as project build systems and can
>> use GDB, CDB (Microsoft?) and Valgrind for debugging.  I don't have enough
>> IDE experience to really make any judgement, but I wondered if it might
>> meet your needs as a light, cross-platform IDE.
>>
>
> The problem I've always had with make-based build systems is rebuild
> dependencies... how do any of those build systems go performing a minimal
> rebuild, or incremental linking?
>

And of course their edit-and-continue support to update a binary while
debugging and continue debugging the edited binary with your code tweak (an
extension from incremental linking)...
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