Easy way to get C++ dev tools?

[Guest]

I'd like to start doing some basic C++ development on a new Kubuntu 12.10 install, but it seems to be missing some basics (gcc, make, etc.). Am I just not looking in the right places, or do I have to instal stuff? If the tools aren't there by default, is there an easy way to get a basic set of dev tools, or do I have to get the package for each individually?

[james147]

You need to install the package "build-essentials" to get everything you need to build c/c++ packages.

[blackpaw]

also "cmake" which for some odd reason isn't part of build-essentials.

IDE - "kdevelop"

Are you wanting to do KDE dev? you'll want the KDE sdk then.

[GreyGeek]

Since KDE is built using Qt, perhaps you might want to install qtcreator as well. It is a world class IDE, superior to MSVC++, IMO.

[Guest]

Thanks for the help. I've installed build-essentials, and I'll get cmake next.

Right now I don't plan on doing any KDE development. Also, the projects I have planned aren't really big enough to require an IDE. I'm just going to use gvim, make, and gcc/g++. I may break out gdb, but I don't really expect to need it.

[GreyGeek]

Consider Kate with Kdbg as your editor and debugger. When I was using MSVC6.0++ on XP to write Qt code I switched to Linux and those tools. I would compile in the console panel of kate and when errors were listed I would click on them and would be taken to the line of code the error was in. When I loaded the source into Kdbg and then the debug-enabled binary I could step through the executable's GUI interface and the lines of code that generated the elements at the same time, showing vars & values, etc..., set up stopping points, etc... I found I could compile 2 to 5X faster in Linux than in MSVC.