What I’m looking for is an IDE that will run on Linux, that has support for C++ and x86 assembly syntax highlighting. I’ve already tried Code::Blocks, but that won’t let me run the program as I need to, so that didn’t work well.
My needs:
- Able to compile programs by issuing a “make all” in a certain directory
- Able to run programs by issuing a custom command instead of running a certain executable
- Graphical (not vim/emacs/etc) and will run in GNOME/Fedora 14
What would be very helpful:
- Git integration
- Autoversioning (like Code::Blocks does)
Eclipse doesn’t work for me, as it no matter what I set it tries to do an auto-build/error check of the entire program, using the wrong toolchain, and errors out everything, even if I disable CDT.
Assembly syntax highlighting is not a requirement but would be useful. It does, however, have to have C++ syntax highlighting.
EDIT: By “Graphical” I mean that I already tried vim/emacs some time ago, and found them too challenging to learn how to use in a short amount of time without loosing my sanity.
EDIT 2: The given editor should also store project files in just one file, as I don’t want to have to “git add” a whole new directory each time the editor silently adds some file there.
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Answer
Vim
Be sure to look at
- C++ Omni Completion
- ctags and TagList
- I use
ctags --exclude=packagedir -R --c++-kinds=+p --fields=+iaS --extra=+q .
- I use
- cscope (here and here)
Simply the best editor and will work anywhere – including in your remote terminal under screen 🙂
Eclipse CDT
Eclipse can import existing makefile projects and will not clobber the makefile 🙂 Eclipses intellisense is nice
I use Eclipse HELIOS on linux. It supports
- profiling,
- memchecking with valgrind
- GDB debugging, remote debugging
- call graph visualization, comprehensive symbol XRef (the usual eclipse shortcuts apply), simple refactorings
- coverage GCov
- oprofile
- …
It should be portable so I expect most of this to work on windows.