From ReactOS

You can use ReactOS together with an editor to make changes to the code.

There are a few free text editors and full featured IDEs available. IDEs have the advantage that you can easily test your changes after you've done some. They also support the features of most usual text editors plus things like project management. But note that (currently) not all parts of ReactOS compile cleanly in an IDE.

But there are also some text editors available, which can be used for editing the ReactOS code. They are more lightweight than IDEs, but anyway support comfortable editor features such as syntax highlighting.

Here is an (incomplete) list of IDEs and text editors, which make editing the ReactOS source code more comfortable.

Contents 1 IDEs 1.1 Windows 1.2 Other platforms 2 Text editors 2.1 Windows 2.2 Other platforms

IDEs

Windows

• Visual C++ 2005 Express
  Command for creating project files: make msvc8
• Code::Blocks
  Command for creating project files: make cb (or make msvc8 if you want to open a VC project file with Code::Blocks)
• Borland C++ Builder
• Dev-C++

Other platforms

• Code::Blocks
  Command for creating project files: make cb (or make msvc8 if you want to open a VC project file with Code::Blocks)

Text editors

Windows

• Notepad++

Other platforms

• GNU Emacs
• Kate
• gedit
• Vim