Re: what are the "standard" programming tools available in Debian?

[rich <rehartma@artsci.wustl.edu>]

Thanks a lot for the great information - I was wondering about what I
needed to give my cheesy little programs a GUI..... ncurses will
probably work just fine for me. As far as "make", that's pretty much not
useful for a program using only a single source file, right? Also, what
about LINT? I'm not all that familiar with it, but it sounds like a
syntax checker, or some such thing for C programs? Any other .deb
packages that can make programming easier for a relative newbie?

Brad wrote:
> 
> Also for C, you'll need the header files for any libraries you use. This
> means you want to download the libc6-dev package, the stdc++??-dev
> (??==2.10 for potato, i don't know for slink) if you program in C++. If
> you do X programming, xlib6[g?]-dev is good, as well as the -dev package
> for qt, gtk, or whatever you want. If you'd rather do a GUI in ncurses,
> get that -dev package. And so on and so on and so on ;)
> 
> If you can get them figured out, the GNU autoconf and automake tools are
> wonderful for making a full-featured makefile. For a small, single source
> file project these might be overkill though.
> 
> For C manpages, check the manpages-dev package. Also, remember that the
> 'manual' for some headers is in the header file itself. If worst comes to
> worst, RTFS ;)