Hello. I am a Windows programmer currently and I would like to use my Windows knowledge to help port some code that is only available on Windows to Linux. (This code is at my university and they can only run it on Windows for no other reason than no one has ported it to Linux.) I would like to know some options that I could use for an IDE for C++. Also, I have heard that Qt is a nice way to form GUI in Linux. I am using RedHat 8 with a Gnome desktop.

Is Qt a C++ class or java import?

What are some of the easiest IDES out there to use?

What are the best IDE's to use?

Thanks in advance for different opions and lots of responces.

There are 2 main IDEs: Anjuta and KDevelop.
Anjuta is GNOME-bases, so it's main library is GTK.
KDevelop is a KDE application, using QT library (integrated with QtDesigner for drawing GUI).
Both are good, it's your choice. Anjuta comes with RedHat by default, KDevelop doesn't, as far as I know.

Websites:
http://anjuta.org/
http://www.kdevelop.org/

Qt is a library (set of classes), written in C++. GTK is also a library, written in C.

I believe that Komodo will do C/C++ too.

I mainly use Komodo because it runs on Solaris, and most of the coding I do is in perl.

Even though its already been mentioned, I'de go with KDevelop - it's an excellent app that includes easy access to documentation

I'd not use an IDE at all - they aren't popular amongst Linux developers. Instead, learn emacs - if you intend to program at all in future the small amount of time taken to learn it now will repay itself many times over in future.

I would not recommend using Qt for your application, as it is GPLd, you would have to make the software you are porting GPLd as well. Try looking at GTKmm, which is a c++ binding of the GTK+ toolkit.

Basically there is little need for an IDE on Linux, all you need is a strong text editor (emacs or vi) and a GUI designer (Glade for GTK+ which spits out XML files you load using libglade at runtime).

Good luck!

mhearn

I have not heard of GTK+. Is that an open source C== GUI Library?

GTK+ is a widget toolkit. You use it to write graphical applications. It can be programmed from nearly any language. Both C and C++ are available, and well supported.