Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Objective C editor

[Paul Johnson]

1. Emacs is the editor worth learning. Or Xemacs, whichever you think is 
easier to install.  I resisted it for years because it has some weird 
stuff.  It is worth installing because it exists for all platforms and 
it is more-or-less a permanent feature of free software development and 
some handy things in swarm apps need emacs.  If you get/install the cua 
lisp package, Emacs gets many orders more acceptable because it makes 
emacs accept the window style shortcuts, Control-X to cut, etc.  Maybe 
the Windows Emacs has those built in. I'm   pretty sure Xemacs does not.

2. You won't be able to build Swarm yourself unless you are an expert. 
You need to get a pre-built package and install it. I keep telling 
everybody I don't do windows, but I know some people who do, and they 
say read the SwarmFaq, find out how to install a pretest version of 
Swarm -2.2 and then use that.  Basically, you get Cygwin, then get the 
swarm pretest, then hack  your windows environment. THe SwarmFaq has 
some info, and in the SwarmFaq/memos directory, there is a long, verbose 
set of instructions that I cobbled together from several posters.

see http://www.ku.edu/~pauljohn/SwarmFaq

The gcc in the Cygwin package is now adequate.  Their support is less 
and less inadequate, as far as I can tell.  I even ran their X server a 
month ago and it was fine.

ABHISAR VERMA wrote:

> Hi
> I am a new user of the swarm and just wanted to know the answers of few
> basic questions.
> 1. which compiler should i use for objective C if I am using windows 2000
> , and if it is gcc then which is the latest version needs to be used.
> 2.where should I find the required swarm libraries i.e. location of the
> all lib files.
> thanks
> Abhi
>
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