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[eafkuor]

I'll make it as brief as possible: I've not been using for 3/4 years now, and I have to install it for a project at university.
What I need is an easy to use distribution (I was thinking Kubuntu) and a decen C IDE.
On Windows I'm used to Visual Studio and Eclipse, are there similar IDEs for Linux?
Or do you suggest just using Emacs? This project of course won't be huge, a dozen files I guess, but still I'm used to the wonders of Visual Studio and I'd like to have something similar on Linux.
Thanks in advance

[Alexander]

Of course Eclipse is cross platform, and kubuntu sounds like a suitable option.

[eafkuor]

Yeah but Eclipse is for Java, I need C.
In the meantime, Kubuntu has been downloaded and is ready for installation :D

[Alexander]

You were out of the loop! Eclipse CDT

It seems to be the most Visual-studio like IDE, both are fairly heavy in size and features.

[eafkuor]

Awesome! Thanks! I was going with KDevelop but this definately seems better.

[Smilex]

Code::Blocks is the one IDE I like the best on Linux, and also the one I've been hearing most about when talking about IDEs on Linux.

[eafkuor]

Thanks I'll try it as well :)

[Alexander]

Code::Blocks is a horrible mess in my opinion, it combines so many interfaces for wxDev or qt it makes hard to work with.

[eafkuor]

In Code::Blocks I've selected gcc but it still required to install g++, am I doing something wrong?
I don't want my code not to compile on my professor's pc, who uses gcc.

[Smilex]

you can get GCC without g++? If I remember correctly, you can add compiler profiles, wherein you give the paths to the C and C++ compiler, debugger, and stuff.

[Alexander]

eafkuor said:

In Code::Blocks I've selected gcc but it still required to install g++, am I doing something wrong?
I don't want my code not to compile on my professor's pc, who uses gcc.

You will be fine, "g++" is a symlink (symbolic link) of "gcc". This is so if you require a different C++ compiler, you can change g++ to link to something else, without having to change the compiler commands in the make file.

You can verify this with the following command:

ls -la `which g++`

[eafkuor]

ok, thanks :D