Experienced Developer, but new to Amiga

[Trev]

@plbyrd

I use a combination of Visual Studio makefile projects and my own builds of GCC. If you don't want to build GCC yourself, take Piru's advice and download zerohero's packages for Cygwin. Someone has gone through the effort of providing tighter integration between GCC, the Amiga includes, and Visual Studio, but I don't recall who.

[HenryCase]

@plbyrd
Here's a useful guide to getting an Amiga cross-compiler running in Windows:
http://utilitybase.com/article/show/2008/05/12/240/Cross+Compiling+for+OS4+or+OS3+using+MS+Visual+Studio+2005

The whole UtilityBase website is useful for Amiga coders, that's who it's aimed at. Amiga Coding should be useful too:
http://www.amigacoding.com/index.php/Main_Page

[plbyrd]

I've pieced together the underlying development environment of Cygwin and GCC used by AmiDevCpp and now am compiling from BASH without a problem.  I've found a good generic makefile that doesn't require putting each source file in the makefile, so I don't have to manage the project in AmiDevCpp any longer.  Now I've just got to solve one riddle and I'll have Visual Studio 2010 doing builds using the make file.

[HenryCase]

I've pieced together the underlying development environment of Cygwin and GCC used by AmiDevCpp and now am compiling from BASH without a problem.  I've found a good generic makefile that doesn't require putting each source file in the makefile, so I don't have to manage the project in AmiDevCpp any longer.  Now I've just got to solve one riddle and I'll have Visual Studio 2010 doing builds using the make file.

Nice one plbyrd. :-) Have you got any ideas for projects you'd like to try out first?

[plbyrd]

Nice one plbyrd. :-) Have you got any ideas for projects you'd like to try out first?

Yes.  I have a game written down on paper to do.  I'm going to write it for the C64 first using CONIO and then port it to NCurses and then release it on the Amiga.  I know people prefer graphics for games, but this one will fit well in text, I do believe.

[EDanaII]

The makefile generated by AmiDevCpp can be used in VS. Whenever I need a new makefile, that's exactly what I do: start the project in AmiDevCpp and then copy the makefile over to VS.

Two cents...

[HenryCase]

Yes.  I have a game written down on paper to do.  I'm going to write it for the C64 first using CONIO and then port it to NCurses and then release it on the Amiga.  I know people prefer graphics for games, but this one will fit well in text, I do believe.

Sounds good, keep us posted. :-)