Is there a good Makefile-generating IDE for Linux?
 

Hello, everybody. I'm just getting into C and C++ programming, and I'm looking for an integrated development environment for Linux that will generate Makefiles for me, and besides that be functional and easy to use.

What do you recommend?

--Dane

Hi,

You can use KDevelop for generating C/C++ projects which includes the directory structure and all the makefiles.
Another excellent tool is Anjuta (www.anjuta.org) which is similar to KDevelop but has more features.

Hi, montylee.

I downloaded Anjuta and I must say that I'm impressed. Thanks for the tip!

--Dane

Enjoy the power of GNU/Linux and open-source software!!!

consider ant
 

I work on mixed C/C++ and Java apps. We use ant to build everything.

So you might want to consider IDEs that use ant rather than make.

NetBeans 4 is one example.

Thanks for the reply, JuddRogers.

I'll keep that in mind. I haven't played with ant much, but maybe I'll give it a try.

--Dane

eclipse is another multi-language IDE that has C/C++ support. Look for the eclipse CDT project. They have a 'managed make' where the ide handles all of the make file issues as well as a 'standard make' mode where you write your own.

I also just downloaded and have started checking out an eclipse plugin called KDE-eclipse. It is oriented towards developing KDE apps with eclipse, but it also can integrate with the gnu autotools (which is one thing that eclipse really lacks).