What tools do you use to develop C++ applications on Linux? [closed]

Answer 1

emacs, cmake, gdb, git, valgrind. It may not be as slick as Visual Studio but it works well, and it's easy to add functionality via bash scripting or emacs lisp.

Answer 2

I use Eclipse+CDT on Windows and Cygwin + g++ to cross compile for Linux.

(Cross compilers are built using crosstool, a nice script-set for generating cross compilers)

Answer 3

I believe KDevelop is what would be the closest from Microsoft Visual Studio. You get pretty much everything (except unfortunately VS debugger which is indeed a killer). Its already mature and its development is pretty fast and promising.

It actually implement a few stuff you won't even see in VS. For instance, open header file and cpp file in vertical tile mode, and have the cursor synchronized in both, ie: when you select a functions prototype, you always have its implementation on your right.

KDevelop is a KDE project, but run on Gnome. Anjuta is an equivalent project on Gnome, but I find it unusable for real work. For the rest of the stack gcc make valgrind ffffd (a gdb IDE) and python for scripting my code.

If you're ok to try a different approach than the VS IDE. You may consider trying vim. It takes a long time to get used to it though.

Answer 4

In addition to many already listed, we use the autoconf toolset for deploying our program to users.

Answer 5

Mi first choice is allways emacs with a lot of plugins: ecb gives some buffers to navigate on the folders, gdb, svn or git integration... This is mi first choice using Python too.

As a second choice, Netbeans with C++ plugin, is very simple and quite powerfull, but too heavy I think.

Answer 6

I use whatever is on the system. I prefer Eclipse CDT as an editor, and g++ as a compiler. However, if eclipse is not an option I use vi, which is fine as well.