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    <p>Microsoft Visual C++ Express is free and easily the best IDE for Windows. Furthermore, you can use it to work on cross-platform code - it more depends on writing standards-adhering code and using portable libraries.</p> <p>If you want to write cross-platform code, I recommend a cross-platform build tool. I use CMake, which generates Visual Studio solutions on Windows, but there are others too, such as SCons. </p> <p>As for libraries, it depends on what exactly you need to do. Qt is an excellent GUI library. libpng/libjpeg and others are good for loading/saving images at a low level, but there are probably other higher-level image libraries as well.</p> <p><strong>[edit]</strong> A response to the comment about MSVC and Qt: A quick search brings up Trolltech's Qt Visual Studio Integration page: <a href="http://doc.trolltech.com/vs-integration-1.4/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Qt Visual Studio .NET Integration</a> A comment points out that this is actually not free (a free addon is available at <a href="http://www.qtsoftware.com/downloads/visual-studio-add-in" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this link</a>, but this runs Qt designer outside of Visual Studio. Also, the Express version of Visual Studio does not support plugins.</p> <p>For coding specifically in Qt there is another new IDE created by Qt: <a href="http://www.qtsoftware.com/products/developer-tools" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Qt Creator</a>. I've heard good things about it, and it is also portable across Windows, Linux, and Mac. </p>
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