Development Resources

Frank J. Laszlo laszlof at vonostingroup.com
Sat Oct 16 14:37:34 PDT 2004


Spiral Eyed Girl wrote:

> Hello,
>
> After looking at the FreeBSD website and looking at docs all over the 
> place, I havent found what I'm looking for, so I decided to mail this 
> list.
>
> I am a software developer for Windows, and moving to FreeBSD has been 
> very nice, especially since the tools to make software are completly 
> free! My question is: Where can I find information on programming for 
> FreeBSD? Things like how it differs from Windows, what it can and 
> can't do, how to develop for X/KDE. I am good with C and C++, and know 
> my way around gcc/make, but I don't know about system and 'net API 
> calls that are specific to FreeBSD, and *NIX in general.
>
> If you can point me to a good website, that would help
> If you can point me to a (recent) book, that would be even better.
>
> Much thanks!
>
Install the kdevelop package, It has a lot of handy tools and shortcuts 
that makes development on X/KDE
much easier. Also you could google around for information regarding 'qt' 
which is the toolkit used
by KDE. Good luck to you..

Regards,
    Frank


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