need a free IDE to use with MS compiler

[Ron Natalie]

Cygwin is not only a port of the GNU utilities, it is also the
Unix API available under Windows.

Unfortunately, it lives (and so do the applications that it genreates)
inside the CYGWIN "lets make windows look like UNIX" environment
which is incompatible with many native windows applications. There
are some other packages (mingw, etc..) that put the GNU compiler
environment in a more native windows environment.

 

[Matt]

Unfortunately, it lives (and so do the applications that it genreates)
inside the CYGWIN "lets make windows look like UNIX" environment
which is incompatible with many native windows applications. There
are some other packages (mingw, etc..) that put the GNU compiler
environment in a more native windows environment.

My goal is to be able to build my app using the Microsoft compiler. I
have tried Mr. Heienen's suggestion to do that using cygwin's Make. It
basically works and looks like the simplest option mentioned in this
thread so far. I guess I shouldn't have said I need an IDE when really
I need only an editor and a make facility. Cygwin lets me use vim and
gmake together with the Microsoft compiler.