Developer tools

Let's list below all the good tools that EiffelStudio programmers use on a daily basis that might be helpful to other. This page also serves as a reference to their download location.

C compiler

• Windows SDK: See the Installing Microsoft C compiler page for details.

Disk Management

• JkDefrag: A quick defragmenter for Windows (http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/index.html).

Editor

• gVim: A graphical version of the popular vi editor (http://www.vim.org)

Memory Management

• Valgrind: Get it from http://valgrind.org and you have graphical tools from Linux (http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/show.cgi) and for Windows (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wincachegrind).

Search

• Agent Ransack: A much better search engine that the one included in Windows Explorer (http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/).

Shell

• 4NT: A much better alternative to the DOS prompt on Windows (http://jpsoft.com/index.html).

Source control management

• SVN: http://subversion.tigris.org/
• TortoiseSVN: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

System Management

• SysInternals: A collection of tools for Windows including process explorer, network activity, file monitor,... (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx).
• Tweak UI: Configure basics of Windows such as the switch task dialogs and other neats things. The 64-bit version can be obtained from http://neosmart.net/Products/TweakUI64.htm, the 32-bit version from Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx.

X Client

• Xming: Based on the cygwin X client code but withouth the cygwin DLLs, making it standalone (http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/)