Good IDE for c++ programming ?

mohtashami · 10-03-2005, 04:06 AM

I am working in a project which has about 40 class (with their *.c and *.h files).
i used kdevelop in suse 9.3 (and other) but it has many bugs. i want an IDE for developing c++ that has a good project file management. it can be free or not but it must be bug free.

thanks a lot.

nixcraft · 10-03-2005, 04:35 AM

Try eclipse C/C++ http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/ but I love to use vim.

SkyEye · 10-03-2005, 04:54 AM

Since nixcraft already suggested Eclipse CDT, Check Anjuta too. It's a good tool, but I think Eclipse is better.

cppkid · 10-03-2005, 05:02 AM

If you have previous experience of using Microsoft Visual C++, then i think you must go for Anjuta, coz its like VC. I don't know much about Eclipse. But i have used Kdevelope 3.0 that comes with Fedora Core 2 and i think its stable and bug free. Because if you use Kdevelope you will find it ease to create GUI, if you want to because it gives support to QT-Designer and automatically set the dependencies and generate the wrapers.

mohtashami · 10-03-2005, 07:34 AM

my project runs in console mode and i need auto completion and class view and other feature that exist in VC. i used anjuta about 6 months ago and it was bug full

(its wizrad to create simple hello word hanged)
i dont used kdevelop under feora core 2 and i will test it.

how can manage project with many files with VIM ? i think that it is a good text editor but it is not an IDE.

nixcraft · 10-03-2005, 08:59 AM

As I said eariler I use vim; and I use GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs + CVS. And yes VIM works as IDE for me, I can do:
- auto completing key-words
- ctages
- formating code automatically
- compile program from vim itself

Basically you need to read vim docs which gives info on all these issues. So vim is AN IDE.

Try following docs:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/C-editing-with-VIM-HOWTO/
http://lug.umbc.edu/tutorials/adv-emacs.html
http://www.vim.org/docs.php

datatab1 · 10-03-2005, 01:12 PM

didn't look at the whole thread, but i'll add a couple in, don't have time to see if they where already posted.

code::blocks i think is cross platform and is easy to use, i use it for it's debugger once in a while

MinGW developer studio i think is also cross platform, but i hate the MSvc++ ide so i got rid of this one quickly. if you like the vc6 ide, this is good for you.

both of those should handle gcc i think.

dev-c++ is not supporting linux now, but they had a linux version in the past. it would be nice if someone could help them port it to linux. but i think they said they dropped it because of problems with kylix, dunno any more than that. dunno what it would take to port either.

and as a side not, i hate kdevelop or whatever it is called, i can't figure out how to do anything.
so i will use code::blocks instead. if i can ever get internet working on it. (or samba)