[vtkusers] best IDE for VTK and C++ under linux

[shekharc]

 > Eclipse is a bit stony. KDevelop has been crashing for me
 > for years, plus it is not cross platform.

I've had the same experience lol. Will give Geany a go too.

Cheers
Shakes

Dominik Szczerba wrote:
> Indeed, code::blocks is pretty good, and cross platform. Eclipse is a 
> bit stony. Geany is an interesting lightweight option too, I just read a 
> binary is also provided for Windows. KDevelop has been crashing for me 
> for years, plus it is not cross platform, not even cross windows manager 
> on linux (uses KDE lib stuff not just QT).
> - Dominik
> 
> shekharc wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> The best IDE on Linux and Windows for C/C++/D is CodeBlocks IMO.
>> <http://www.codeblocks.org/>
>> For all installed libraries, auto-completion works out of the box. It 
>> is also available in Ubuntu Jaunty Package Repository.
>>
>> Cross platform and cross compiler makes it great from my experience.
>>
>> HTH
>> Cheers
>> Shakes
>>
>> Michael Jackson wrote:
>>> For Eclipse CDT code completion to work CDT MUST be able to find all 
>>> of the include directories and files. Eclipse does this 2 ways:
>>>   Automatically: CDT will scan the compile commands and look for -I 
>>> flags, take the arguments from those flags and add those paths to the 
>>> "Paths & Symbols" table for indexing.
>>>    Manually: YOU have to add every folder that you want indexed into 
>>> the "Paths & Symbols" table in the Project properties: Right click on 
>>> Project->Properties->C/C++ General->Paths and Symbols.
>>>
>>> Once the entries in that table are entered correctly then you can 
>>> force a rebuild of the index by again right click on the 
>>> project->Index->Rebuild
>>>
>>> Hope that helps.
>>>
>>> If you are using CMake for your project and using either the Eclipse 
>>> generator or just plain makefiles then manually creating your 
>>> projects then you can add "VERBOSE=1" to the "build command" in the 
>>> "C/C++ Build" preferences to have cmake output the full compile command.
>>>
>>> _________________________________________________________
>>> Mike Jackson                  mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
>>> BlueQuartz Software                    www.bluequartz.net
>>> Principal Software Engineer                  Dayton, Ohio
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 12, 2009, at 1:47 PM, abdalrahman eweiwi wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> hello all
>>>> i am new to vtk development and i am trying to integrate my eclipse 
>>>> IDE with CDT to have the autocomplete property , please if any one 
>>>> knows the procedure please tell me, or if you have any alternative 
>>>> ide which will fit well with vtk development , i would be grateful
>>>> -- 
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Abdalrahman Eweiwi
>>>> Msc in Media Informatics
>>>> RWTH-AACHEN
>>>> B-it
>>>>
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