Question netbeans + cygwin

I've given up on using visual studio 2010, and been told that I could use netbean's IDE and cygwin as a replacement. I've installed both, cygwin I installed every package available (was unsure which were requied for mud programming). When I open the stock tbamud project it get some "make" errors.

I can post them if needed, but I was wondering if there was anyone who knew of a tutorial in setting these 2 up for use with mud development. I've done a few google searches but to no avail. Thanks in advance if anyone has any knowledge they can share about this.

You can post the make errors and I, or someone else, may be able to help in getting tbamud to successfully compile, but while the source code CAN be compiled in a windows or other environment, it has been designed for use in a linux setting. I too used to use Microsoft's Visual Studio to compile old circleMUD back in the day and while I was able to get it up an running, I ran into enormous compatibility issues while trying to make changes.

In the end, the amount of time & effort of getting it to consistently run properly in Windows vs the time & effort of setting up a linux environment and using that, makes for very little argument.

Check out the README.CYGWIN in the /doc directory. I updated it a few years back and have used Cygwin off and on for a while. Never tried netbeans though. Good luck and post problems/successes here.

I have been using a linux server up till now and editing code with notepad++, while using the filezilla to upload changes. But I miss having a real IDE to develope the code in, something with intellisense would be amazing, especially when just learning how circlemud and tba really work.

For my development set up I have a dual-boot system on my laptop with both Windows XP and Ubuntu, this allows me to use Windows for whatever I need it for and Ubuntu for writing code for tbaMUD and my own projects. Ubuntu has a few IDEs like Netbeans, Geany(What I Use) and others, and the window manager & built in ftp allows me to use my IDE to edit both my local files and those on my hosted mud server directly.

i successfully, not too long back, installed cygwin and netbeans (full installs on both)

i made sure to run ./configure, then make... i compiled completely error-free... it was a thing of beauty

the only advice i can give is to make sure you run the configure file