looking for online howtos/tutorials for newbie developers

[Benjamin J. Weiss]

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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 3:04 AM
Subject: Re: looking for online howtos/tutorials for newbie developers


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> i'm familiar with only the last one, but remember, i'm not looking
> for howtos on programming in C; i'm interested in docs that describe
> the entire development environment in linux using the GNU toolset
> for people who most likely already know how to program in C, perhaps
> coming from a windows environment, and need to know how all the GNU
> tools work together.
>
> as i mentioned, there is the book "programming with gnu software" from
> o'reilly, but it's getting fairly dated (1995).  in a perfect world,
> there would be a book like "open source development tools", covering
> things like gcc, how libraries work, linkers, make, the autotools,
> and so on.  sadly, i don't see one out there.

When I started getting interested in this same thing, I started looking for
links as well.  I found a few, and put them on a page for personal
reference.  This is *not* a polished page, more just a list of links that I
found.  That said, it may be of some small help.  You can find it at:
http://www.benjamin.weiss.name/gcc.html

HTH,

Ben