Thanks Ledo. I'll take a look at codeblocks before I start thinking about GCC. C++ development for Windows really seems geared around Microsoft's compiler. Use of GCC (or Codewarrior) seems to introduce problems (different sets of includes, various open-sourced releases compatible only with VS unless sweeping source changes are made).
** EDIT: Codeblocks works with (amongst other things) the Visual Studio .NET 2003 toolkit which is a free distribution of the core components of .NET 2003 (compiler, linker, includes). Very handy.
** Further EDIT: Codeblocks + Visual Studio .NET 2003 toolkit is an excellent development environment. has a few stability problems, but Codeblocks is still being worked on and I'm sure they'll fix the big bugs before a it comes out of beta (it's at release candidate stage).
** EDIT: Codeblocks works with (amongst other things) the Visual Studio .NET 2003 toolkit which is a free distribution of the core components of .NET 2003 (compiler, linker, includes). Very handy.
** Further EDIT: Codeblocks + Visual Studio .NET 2003 toolkit is an excellent development environment. has a few stability problems, but Codeblocks is still being worked on and I'm sure they'll fix the big bugs before a it comes out of beta (it's at release candidate stage).