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Portable C++ IDE/Compiler

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Submitted by pfeerick on December 13, 2005 - 7:44pm

Since somebodies asking about a portable Visual Basic, what about a portable C/C++ compiler. DevC++ from www.bloodshed.net is one of the best free C/C++ IDE package. And it's not that hard to make DevC++ into a portable package.

For ease, I put it in a NSIS package which unpacks the compiler, run its, and then waits for it to close so the files can be remove. Works perfectly, all I have to do now is make the NSIS package load registry settings from a file, and when the compiler closes, hopefully save any changed registry settings for DevC++ back to that file.

The IDE is opensource, so there's not reason it can't be edited to load/save it's settings from a file, or that a portable version similar to the one I'm currently using can be made.

Portable WinAmp

Submitted by Achilles on December 13, 2005 - 2:11pm

I would love to see a portable version of a recent release of WinAmp. I hate having to install it on every machine I get on.

If this can't be done at least a portable music player that isn't Windows Media Player that supports m3u playlists and network drives.

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Application that allows any program to become a portable app.

Submitted by bdmp on December 12, 2005 - 7:25pm

I was thinking that it would be nice to have a portable skype, and I saw a post somewhere about someone asking about using itunes for podcasting while traveling (portable itunes), but these programs are not open sourced so we can't do that, right. So I thought what if we could make a program that treated any application like it was portable, so if you had room you could install skype or itunes on a usb key. What do you think? Is this possible?

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