Re: what's the best IDE for C programming in Debian?
- From: "Star Liu" <minxinjianxin@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 23:11:33 +0800
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Anton Liaukevich <anthonyl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Star Liu wrote:
I'm novice at Debian but I also want to express my opinion. I haven't
When I develop in windows, I use visual studio.net 2008 as my IDE, if
I want to develop in Debian, what's the best the IDE for C
programming?
thanks!
still tried Visual Studion .NET 2008. When I began to study C++ (in 2003
year) I have seen that it is very flexible and powerful language but ...
most the majority of compilers don't correctly support these C++
possibilities. Moreover, the majority of C++ libraries are very "crooked".
I have fallen in love with templates and generic programming. Then I was
using MS Visual Studio 6.0 as my compiler and IDE (it was the most
popular in my university) but I have seen that it doesn't support fairly
simple C++ possibilities connected with templates. I was forced to use
Service Pack 5 for VS6.0 but even it couldn't solve the problem. Then I
had tried Borland C++ Builder and I hasn't also liked it.
Then I had downloaded GCC 3.4 and have seen that it (with its
implementation of STL) almost fully support ISO 14882 c++ standard.
Regrettably, I hadn't IDE for it under Windows. After I had heard about
Boost libraries I have being trying to build it under Windows (using
various compilers) but it was very ... very! difficult. Furthermore I would
like to develop cross-platform libs and apps.
My friends advised me GNU/Linux to be more comfortable for C++ development.
After a very long pause in my developer's life I had even so dared to
install GNU/Linux. I have chosen Debian as a largest distribution with
APT & Debconf and installed it (testing: Lenny).
In Debian I have seen Boost libraries split into a great number of
packages with non-fully-templated libraries precompiled (for 12
architectures). I also in distribution I have found several good C++
libraries for unit-testing, gui, network, xml parsing, database,
algorithmic, graph theory and other (which is updated constantly if you have
an access to a Debian mirror).
Firstly, I tried Eclipse together with CDT plugin (included in Debian
distribution). I liked it for it large versatility and independence of
programming language, compiler. Eclipse is very plugingable and has very
savvy editor (good code-compleption, symbol-browser, error solver). However,
in practice, it's a very good IDE for Java but when I had being trying to
develop in C++ (widely using templates) with Eclipse I have seen it's not
very suitable for C++ development.
Earlier I tried to use Anjuta (a big GNOME C/C++ IDE) but it's has too
complex build system (using automake, autoconf). Also I tried KDevelop (a
big KDE universal IDE) (in 2006 year) but I had big troubles with debugging.
I want to say that I like to heavily structurize my project's directory
tree. It looks like that:
<project-name>
bin
build
<ide-compiler-1>
[compiler-&-ide-specific project files]
<ide-compiler-2>
[compiler-&-ide-specific project files]
...
include
[.h files]
obj
Debug
src
[object files]
Release
src
[object files]
src
[.cpp files]
tests
<test1>
[nested (complete) project]
<test2>
[nested (complete) project]
...
Finally, I heared of Code::Blocks IDE. It hasn't included in Debian (WHY???)
but you can download .deb-package (for i386 & amd64 architectures) from
http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/5.
It is free & open-source (GPL 3.0). It has been developed using wxWidgets
2.8 (linux-ports uses Gtk+ as backend) therefore it is fully cross-platform
(there are releases under Windows including variants for use with MinGW).
Code::Blocks has given me pretty good code-completion (such code-completion
as used for Java in Eclipse is impossible for C++ because of templates). It
uses good compiler (g++, you can indicate gcc version yourself using
symlink), frontend for GDB as debugger. Code::Blocks has its own build
system (doesn't use configure/automake/autoconf and creates only one
"intermediate" file "project.depend") which is very convenient for me. But
you can indicate your own makefile if you like it. It is very convenient
while using such distribution as Debian. Such IDE gives me a possibility to
create project's directory structure I like. Code::Blocks also has plugin
system but I haven't tried any 3rd party plugin yet.
P.S. Now I'm using C++ (and IDE for it, of course) for implementation
algorithms (from matrix, graph theories) in "generic" way and Code::Blocks
is very suitable for me. I think it will be also very suitable for rapid
development using wxWidgets etc.
I'm really happy to get so much good suggestions, I will try the
following tools one by one, and send my use reports to this mail
thread. I feel that the first one I want to try is codeblocks.
code::blocks
eclipse(with CDT plugin)
Eclim
emacs
vim
Anjuta (a big GNOME C/C++ IDE)
kate
ctags
kdevelop
netbeans
make
gdb(or ddd)
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