I was following Nick's walkthrough on how to compile.
Having no experience in compiling at all I did find it very helpful. But and there is always a but.
when I got to the part where he explains how to grep files and to edit using vi I ran into problems. LOL
when I enter
vi act_obj.c
I get
bash: vi: command not found
does this mean I need to reinstall Cygwin with the vi editor
or can I use another editor and how do I find out which I have.. LOL
Any help would be greatly appreciated..
Yeah, you do. You need to install all of Cygwin's packages, pretty much.
Actually, instead of downloading more stuff for cygwin and reinstalling, visit www.liquidninja.com and download metapad. It's a freeware textpad replacement that won't muck up your file formatting. Alternately, there's www.textpad.com with a much more powerful text editor that wont muck up your formatting and can handle more intricate functions.
vi can be a pain to use if you aren't used to it. If you want to use it, I wrote a fairly lengthy post about doing it recently. And yes, when it says "vi: command not found" that is exactly the problem, you didn't install it.
I have been using SciTE recently for development and been very happy with it.
http://www.scintilla.org
It is free, fast, does syntax colouring, and is very reliable. And it works in a natural way (ie. like a Windows program) which is more than you can say for vi.
Thanks everyone. I will check out the other editors..
I downloaded scintilla ad I think I have it installed correctly but I am not sure.. but I am still facing the same problem.. I have no idea how to open or edit any of the files..
I am still not giving up.. Neva Die!!!
Anyway if anyone can help me figure out how to use a editor in cygwin to modify codes and such I would be forever in their debt..
Metapad and TextPad both open like the standard windows notepad. Scintilla I would imagine is much the same as well and opening files should be as simple as double clicking the file you want.
Scintilla is a editing control, SciTE is a program which is an actual editor. Follow the link on the other page, to here:
http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTE.html
Then download it. Personally I find it very good.
I got it all working now and your right Nick if feels more familiar..
Thaks again..