Development IDE

ghost5316 · n00b Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Posts: 35

I'm used to using Windows XP for development so naturally I'm used to Visual Studio 6 and Visual Studio .Net...

Basically I'm looking for the Visual Studio equivelent in Linux, perferably with Intellisence (gotta love it)....

Thanks

tactless · Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2003 9:23 pm Post subject:

KDevelop is what you seek.
However, I'd recommend that you try and get to know traditional UNIX editors and programming tools - vim/emacs, make, automake, autoconf...
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ManicMailman · n00b Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 40

Ugh...as much as I'd like KDevelop to be great, I always end up going back to Anjuta.
Try Kdev, I guess, but switch to Anjuta when the bugs start rollin in...

friedmud · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 1:46 am Post subject:

Kdevelop3 is the only way to program for Unix/Linux. I simply can't do it any other way anymore (except for small projects - and web projects - for those I use Quanta).

for a "semi" screenshot of kdevelop3 running on my Itanium look here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=112156

There is an ebuild for the newest beta of Kdevelop - but you have to go manually merge it because it is masked out right now - but it does work great!

Derek

shm · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 4:50 am Post subject:

TheMole · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 11:10 am Post subject:

mingw developer studio... not open source (though free as in beer), not in portage, but a great and simple visual studio 6 work-alike
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darksaidin · Apprentice Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 150

Valheru · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2003 1:45 pm Post subject:

KDevelope 3 (gideon) and Qt are the is the only way to program for Linux IMO. I'll probably get shot by the die hards, but GUI programming is the future. Write deamons if you like, but for the sake of all that's holy, write a GUI interface for them. I'm having to write a few clients because Linux GUI support for them is bloody awful (Binary news reader/downlaoder, FTP server and client).

cephlen · n00b Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 40 Location: Seattle, WA

I dont think you will be happy with any of the linux IDE's. They are all poor compared to VS.NET.

Anjuta, KDevelop, and Eclipse are ok, but no where near being as feature rich and powerful as VS.NET.

ManicMailman · n00b Joined: 02 May 2002 Posts: 40

I tried an alpha of Gideon and was still dissapointed (like, as far as I remember, you can't remove files from a project...wtf???) Maybe it has improved since then, I guess I'll give it another shot one of these days.

Jesse · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Apr 2002 Posts: 148

You can definitely remove files.

I've been using 3.0 for a while now and it's much nicer than 2.x but some interface problems remain. The core is getting quite nice though. CVS integration is good, valgrind frontend is cool, projects now have debug/optimized/default build configurations, and KDevelop will even provide you precious templates to work on the evil gtk projects (as well as nearly everything else you'd like to do).

The automake manager is a dream come true. It allows you to do things like make multiple executables per directory through the use of targets and such. Sub-Projects are also easy to setup and function as expected. Making these sub-projects work together (include files from one sub project in another, libs from one project in another, etc) is also extremely simple now.

Intellisense is by no means anywhere close to what (currently) the Visual Assist plugin can do for VS.net. (The next visual studio will negate the need for visual assist all together ...)

All in all it's a good package and at least worth a try. And in the gentoo spirit if you have issues with it, post around a bit

Wouldn't want you to _have_ to use that gtk thing ...