annoying devc++ issue

Bozebo

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OK, I am learning opengl and other aspects of game programming but devcpp is being annoying.

Basically, it will not compile unless I edit the main file. Which is extremely annoying as I work with multiple included headers such as gameObjects.h, api.h etc which control various classes and aspects of the program, to get the stupid thing to compile I have to open main.cpp and make any minor whitespace change first; I am doing about 10 compiles a minute trying to get little things to work and fix bugs etc but this stupid issue is annoying me to no end.

Any ideas? I have checked that nothing is read only, and my user account is the unlocked Administrator (in vista) so there can't be any permission issues.

Do I have to edit the make file?
 
Sorry to be blunt, but any reason you're using Dev-C++ instead of Visual Studio or Visual Studio Express Edition?

It's a bit old and crap as far as I know.
 
wush said:
Sorry to be blunt, but any reason you're using Dev-C++ instead of Visual Studio or Visual Studio Express Edition?

It's a bit old and crap as far as I know.
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why does everybody say that?

visual studio is bloatware and I coudn't get it to work with openGL despite the libraries being in the correct locations and the linkers being set correctly.

visual studio makes an annoying folder structure and fills it with extra junk files which probably helps if the application you are working on is complex but it just gets in my way

all I really want is a syntax highliter and a command line compiler. I know devcpp emulates gcc but I couldn't get it organised in a proper way
 
VS isn't bloatware. It has a lot of features 'cos it's a good IDE.

I did some OpenGL with GLUT and VS2005 (I think) some years ago. Worked nicely, but I can't remember the specifics of setting up the projects.
 
If you're on Windows your best choice is VS, as wush says.
Dev C++ comes with an absolutely ancient version of GCC and was never a very
nice IDE anyway.
Codeblocks seemed OK when I tried it, but the binaries on the site are dated 2008, as is the last news item.
 
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