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Old 09-06-2000, 06:19 PM   #1
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Hey, can someone tell me how I can set LILO to boot to windows as a default. My wife and kid don't need to work in Linux

Also, I have done a bit of C++ programming, but I don't know how to access the compiler in Linux. Would appreciate any help on either of these two issues. Thanks in advance!
 
Old 09-06-2000, 07:41 PM   #2
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Hello,
To change which OS is booted by default you need to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file. Look for a line that says something like 'default=linux' and change that to what LILO knows as the name of your windows partition. (most likely 'dos' or 'windows').

As for a C++ compiler gcc comes standard with Linux installations, just type 'gcc -o foo foo.c' to compile foo.c and get foo as the executable.
 
Old 09-06-2000, 11:07 PM   #3
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Unfortunately I don't know of any descent Linux C/C++ compiler, that's y I stick with M$ Visual C++, I don't like M$ but Visual Studio is a great product, the debuger is way better than Borland's IMO!
 
Old 09-13-2000, 10:41 AM   #4
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whoa! What's wrong with gcc/egcs? Are you saying that VC++ is better??
 
Old 09-13-2000, 06:34 PM   #5
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IMHO Visual C++ is the best C++ compiler in the market right now!
 
Old 09-13-2000, 06:41 PM   #6
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I think you may be confusing a compiler with an IDE. Visual C++ is both an IDE and a compiler, egcs is just a compiler. A compiler JUST compiles code. The syntax highlighting, name completion, GUI front-end is the IDE. IMHO egcs is MUCH better at compiling. If you play with emacs a bit you really can get it to do some amazing things, it just not as "out of the box" as VC++.
 
  


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