I try to learn C++ and because I'm already familiar with Eclipse (PHP, JavaScript, HTML (CSS), Java) I downloaded Eclipse for C / C++ Developers.
The others versions of Eclipse I used over the past years always had an easy way to save automatically before doing certain things. And Eclipse for C / C++ Developers seamed to have the same thing and it might be that it actually worked yesterday (but then again, I was really tired).
Everything I found regarding this is either what's described in this question or a subset of what's described there. However, this doesn't work for me. (I of course tried restarting Eclipse.)
I'm running the newest version (which I downloaded yesterday from the official website) of Eclipse for C / C++ Developers in the 64 bit version for Linux on an Ubuntu machine. I checked for updates via the internal tool and Eclipse is up to date.
This is what "About Eclipse" says:
Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers
Version: Mars.1 Release (4.5.1)
Build id: 20150924-1200
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I'm running Eclipse Oxygen.1 IDE for Java Developers 64 bit and I want to add the C/C++ language to it so I can write and compile code for my C Language class using only one IDE. When I go to install new software am I supposed to be installing the development tools for under the programming language tab or from the CDT tab or both? The tools under the Programming Language tab are version 9.3.2 and the tools under CDT tab are version 9.3.0. I'm confused as to which ones I'm supposed to install. Also if anyone could help me with the installation of MinGW. I'm running Windows 10 on a 64 bit operating system. And I'm not sure as to how I can get the latest version of MinGW for 64 bit OS. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
You can have a combined IDE. I use one that combines the Eclipse SDK, including Java and a bunch of other things all in one. It's a bit clunky to do but can be done. Just go to the Help -> Install New Software... menu item and bring up the install dialog.
First install one of them, Java or C/C++. Then after launching it, select the "Luna - http://download.eclipse.org/releases/oxygen" item in the "Work with:" selector. Then find the other IDE components you would like in the list and install it.
I had Oxygen with java and pydev but experienced great difficulty adding cdt yesterday. I have some good reasons for keeping Oxygen instead of upgrading (older code and even OS compatibility since I'm still running High Sierra, again there are reasons for doing that). One key is finding the url given above download.eclipse.org/releases/oxygen . However, my install would still not work, for some unknown reason.
Here is the important part of my comment. Installs and updates can take forever if you don't uncheck the box on the install page which says this:
Contact all update sites during install to find required software
It is a known bug, that it is checked by default, but never to be fixed. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=340298
Also this bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=340298 was applied to cdt 9.3 if you get the pty error trying to compile.
I am trying to embed Google's V8 in my game engine. I'm targeting 3 operating systems: Windows, Linux and OS X.
I haven't had any problems with building for Windows - I used NuGet packages. But I'm trying to build V8 for Linux and the problem is - I'm doing this on Windows (Windows 10 if it matters).
Google doesn't exactly say how to compile V8 for Linux using Windows and now I'm really confused, as I have no idea. So far I have depot_tools, properly fetched v8 (using fetch command), Python and MinGW.
I've tried with v8gen.py, but it seems that it generates build files only for Visual Studio. As I said, I don't need VS files.
My question is: What should I do?
This is not possible out-of-the-box with the current build tools and configurations that V8 provides. As suggested in the comments, using a VM might be the quickest way to get this working for you.
If it is very important for you long-term, or for other developers as well, you could look at submitting patches to V8 to make this possible, but I don't have a good sense of how much work that would be.
I am a student who will be using C++ next quarter. I really enjoyed using the Galileo release of Eclipse with Java and I would like to continue using Eclipse for for C++ development.
I am now experimenting with C++ development on Eclipse. I am running Eclipse 3.5 SR2 with CDT 6.02. My operating system is Windows 7 and I have installed MinGW-5.1.6. Version 6.3 of GDB is installed.
I have it compiling and stepping through code. However, I have the suspicion that I'm just crawling along and have yet to "shift the car out of first gear". I've spent about a week poking around on the Web to learn what constitutes and "optimal" C++ Eclipse experience. In particular, I'm interested in round-tripping with UML and unit testing.
My exploration of the Web became an archeological dig. I turned up how-to articles from 2003, alternative MinGW distros, references to plugins, dead-links, more references to plugins, passionate discussions on gdb bugs, and more references to plugins.
I no longer have any idea what might constitute an optimal C++ Eclipse environment. Would members of the community like to weigh-in on what they consider to be the current optimal experience for C++ development using Eclipse?
CDT 7.0 (out now in June) will have a preview of Codan, a static analysis framework for C/C++. It will highlight logic errors for you in "realtime", i.e. without having to wait for compilation. (It doesn't have very many checkers at the moment, but the number is growing, and you can also implement checkers of your own.)
CDT 7.0 also features a new debugger contributed by Nokia (called "EDC"), which allows debugging without relying on 3rd party tools such as gdb. This will also allow debugging of Visual Studio binaries, something which previously has been impossible.
The "Open Type" and "Open Resource" commands of CDT (and JDT also, BTW) is something I always miss when I have to do stuff in Visual Studio. Being able to locate any type by incrementally typing a part of its name is very practical, and Visual Studio has nothing close to it.
Integration with unit-testing is still missing, though. Not sure why that hasn't caught on.
Here is what I ended up with for a C++ development environment on Windows 7.
Compiler & libraries
Nuwen MinGW Distro.
It includes the Boost libraries which are necessary for the unit testing framework.
A big thanks to Stephan T. Lavavej for making this distribution available.
Debugger
The GNU debugger as built for Windows.
I copied the file gdb.exe into my C:\MinGW\bin folder and it worked well.
Thanks for Equation Solution for providing win32 and win64 binaries of the GDB executable.
IDE
Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers.
Unit testing framework
CUTE (C++ Automated Unit Testing Easier).
Download the Eclipse plug-in using Eclipse’s software installation . Add this URL to “Available Software Sites”: http://ifs.hsr.ch/cute/updatesite.
The CUTE Website has excellent installation and usage instructions.
I failed to find a round-trip modeling tool that was useful to me. Exploring free UML tools was like wandering through a city that had been bombed. Dozens of projects stood in various states of usability. Some projects were clearly active, some were clearly abandoned, but most were somewhere in between. Visio continues to be my pragmatic choice for creating UML models.
Seeing as none of the C++ gods here on SO have weighed in...
My last experience with CDT was about 1 year ago. I too love eclipse for Java, and while CDT "did the job", I didn't feel like it did it any better than Code::Blocks which I used for cross platform development.
Eclipse does have access to UMLet which is my favorite UML tool as it uses a very simple scripting language instead of the 'mouse-click-drag-double-click-type' hell that most UML applications turn out to be. However, UMLet can also be used as a standalone application which makes tucking it into eclipse accomplish little more than wasting screen real-estate.
In the end, I really don't think you are going to find many professionals developing in CDT.
On the linux side you are going to find developers using what they wish to use (Anjuta, Code::Blocks, Dev-C++, kdeveloper, EMACS, vim, etc.)
On the Windows side you'll find Visual Studio overwhelmingly followed by the IDE's above that happen to be cross platform.
In the end, if I HAD to develop in Eclipse; I would use CDT, UMLet, and Subclipse. After having done that I would probably long for my TortoiseSVN, Visual Studio, Code::Blocks, and UMLet standalone.
As far as any automated unit testing goes? Don't know, write my tests by hand. Hope that helps.
I am setting up a Linux development machine (Ubuntu 9.0.x).
I want to know the best development environment for a C++ developer on Ubuntu - giving my background (see below).
5 years+ C++
5 years Visual Studio
Not much experience using GNU tools (GCC, GDB, make, etc.)
6 months or so of using Emacs at university (about 8 years ago!) - I don't remember anything though ;)
I come from a Windows background so am more at ease with GUI than CLI, although I expect to learn the CLI commands over time. I want to be effective and "hit the ground running" as it were, in terms of developing on Linux.
I am particular interested in tools that will make my life easier for:
1). project management
2). build configuration via GUI (rather than makefile editing - at least for now).
3). debugging IDE that allows me to set breakpoints and step in/out/over
It would be useful if the IDE suggested has a GUI to ease my transition to Linux, but is also customisable (e.g. can accept hand crafted edited make files etc. - when I have learnt how to create them). This will allow me to have more control over the build process later on.
Which set of tools would you recommend in order for me to achieve the maximum productivity in the minimum amount of time on my Ubuntu desktop?
So:
Which application (IDE) offers:
(i). easiest transition from Visual Studio (and ideally can use manully crafted make files)
(ii). extensive debugging capability akin to Visual Studio
for the latest Ubuntu (9.0.x) desktop OS?
As for C++ developing I'd choose Qt Creator IDE for easiest migrating from Visual Studio. I believe it can cover all your needs.
The best tools that you need are:
make
gcc
g++
Your Favorite Text Editor
auto-tools
Qt Creator
Glade
Your Favorite Project Manager
For Ubuntu I suggest you to use Glade, because Ubuntu uses Gnome(GTK).
About IDEs:
Eclipse For C/C++
Netbeans For C/C++
Code::Blocks
Kdevelop
I think you should just bite the bullet and learn enough make, gcc, and gdb to accomplish what you need to do at the command line. If you get that taken care of, you can use whatever editor you like to write the code -- even Visual Studio's editor.
Have a look at Code::Blocks. It's a nice IDE for doing C/C++ and comes with an own build-system. But be sure not to grab the version inside the official ubuntu repository but go to the CB forum and look for the latest nightly build. There are people maintaining repositories with ubuntu packages. I think CB is worth the hassle of installing the latest version.
Link to Code::Blocks Forum
Btw. I did an install some days ago. There are two people maintaining 64-Bit Ubuntu packages. Only one did work, though. It was this one.
You can use Glade Interface designer (glade.gnome.org) for interface design.
BOUML for UML modelling & project management
You can always use eclipse or netbeans for c++ development on linux.
Though I recommend Eclipse, it would automatically generate makefiles, debugging is very easy & you can configure your code repositories within the IDE.
I have a friend who is trying to make the switch to Linux, but is hung up on the apparent lack of debugging/IDE environments for C++, especially as they relate to template programming. He has been using visual studio for years and is maybe a little spoiled by their awesome IDE. Does anyone have any good suggestions for an environment where he can, under Linux, develop and debug with all of the usual things (Breakpoints, line highlighting for compilation errors, step in/over/out/etc, etc) that he's accustomed to? Thanks!
How about Eclipse + CDT ?
Although many people think of it as a Java IDE, he could try NetBeans. I've used it on Windows for C and C++ development without a problem, and I know NetBeans is supported on Linux, so it would be worth a shot.
It looks like most of the features he wants are included in the C/C++ development toolkit, including integration with GDB, a profiler, and more.
Visual Studio is good, indeed.
On the free side:
Qt Creator is getting quite good too, it's worth a try. There are advantageous by-products coming from the Qt framework:
huge library - not only to build GUI applications but for other domains as well
portability on multiple platforms
A version 1.3 beta is available as a preview of the upcoming release but the current 1.2.1 is already all you need to manage projects.
Eclipse has already been mentioned, it's a very good environment offering many plug-ins (Mylyn, SVN, ...).
MonoDevelop somewhat supports C++ (more and more, I didn't check the latest version).
I've used Eclipse for C/C++ and it's pretty useful. It's also used at ACM ICPC World Finals http://cm.baylor.edu/welcome.icpc
I'd recommand Code::Blocks (but use a nighty build). It can be coupled with gdb to enable step by step debugging and all that stuff.
Not exactly an IDE but SublimeText 2/3 is available on Linux now. There may be a debugger plugin for it too, who knows.
Edit
Here's a gdb plugin for SublimeText
I havn't explored it personally, but Emacs has a C++ development addon that looks very much like a full IDE.
About 7 years ago I used KDevelop that was shipped with KDE. I found it quite good back than, and I hope it also improved with the time. I found it quite comparable to VC++ 6 at this time.
It also contains Qt support, if you are in need for some GUI toolkit.
Depends, Code::Blocks is good, Eclipse is very nice too, but you will need a very good computer. In my opinion the best choice iss gcc, gdb and ViM or Gedit.
My buddies from work use Eclipse + Scons, they also use Valgrind(spelling?) for tracking memory leaks and such.
Many of the IDE features you listed were debugger features. The ddd (Data Display Debugger) debugger is quite a nice GUI wrapper for gdb, allowing graphical representation of data structures, a non-crappy source listing window (ie. unlike the l command of gdb where you don't get context), and also allows you to use any and all native gdb commands directly if desired.
Have a look at CodeLite. It's available for Ubuntu and Fedora out of the box and even for Windows and Mac. So you can have the same IDE on different platforms.
We tried Eclipse and NetBeans but left them due to their huge CPU and memory usage. We have a development server and all the developers connect to it via RDC. Thats why these IDEs miserably failed in our model.
So, we looked for some native IDE. Found CodeBlocks to be very good and super fast. We sort of settled on it but later found CodeLite and liked it better than CodeBlocks.
I just seeing this question after 12+ years. AnyHow I just writing my answer. I personally use Quincy IDE for C and C++ development. it is very lite weight and debugging watch list is very much good and easy to use. I'm just attaching the link to the site. try it.
But you have to install it with wine.
Quincy <-- Click here