Platforms - We should support Macintosh, Unix, Windows, and Unix on windows via cygwin

Tools - We should use development environments, compilers, linkers, editors, bug databases, profilers, and code repositories to develop our solutions.

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Tool Descriptions:

• Integrated Dev Environment (IDE) - tool for doing most development tasks in one integrated tool (typically supports both GUI and command line interfaces)
• Code Repository - saves code and tracks changes over time
• Compiler / Linker - tools for building your source code into binaries
• Editor - tool for creating, editing, and maintaining our source code
• Debugger - tool for finding and fixing bugs
• Error Tracking Database - tool for reporting/tracking bugs
• Profiler - tool for finding performance problems
• Math Program - tool for prototyping or verifying the underlying mathemetics (equations) of our solution

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Platform Tool Suggestions:

All Platforms:

• Code Repository - SVN
• Error Tracking Database - Email for now
• Math Program - MatLab

Macintosh:

• IDE -
• Compiler/Linker -
• Editor -
• Debugger -
• Profiler -

Unix / Cygwin on Windows:

• IDE - GNU Development
• Compiler/Linker - GNU Compiler/Linker (gcc)
• Editor - VI or EMACS
• Debugger - GNU debugger (gdb)
• Profiler - GNU profiler (gprof)

Windows:

• IDE - Visual Studio 2005
• Compiler/Linker - Visual Studio 2005
• Editor - Visual Studio 2005, SlickEdit, or Notepad
• Debugger - Visual Studio 2005
• Profiler - Intel VTune (for Intel chipsets), Code Analyst (for AMD chipsets)

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Platform / Tool Links:

• Code Analyst (profiler): Notes - Free Software

• Cygwin (Unix emulator layer for Windows) - Wikipedia, Notes - Free Software, very large set of libaries/API's

• EMACS (editor): Wikipedia, Notes - Free Software

• GNU Development (IDE): Wikipedia, Notes - Free software

• Mathematica (Math Program): Wikipedia, Notes - Costs money, student version available

• MatLab (Math Program): Wikipedia, Notes - costs money, site license available for CS students

• Slick Edit (editor): Wikipedia, Notes - costs money, integrates with a variety of development studios

• SVN Subversion (Code Repository): Wikipedia, Notes - free software

• VI (editor): Wikipedia

• Visual Studio 2005 (IDE): Wikipedia, Notes - costs money, student version available, defacto tool for windows development

• VTune (profiler): Notes - costs money, student version available (hard to find)

-- ShawnDB - 15 Jun 2008