On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Anton Liaukevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Star Liu wrote: >> >> 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! >> > I'm novice at Debian but I also want to express my opinion. I haven't > 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) > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
