Regarding more complex, powerful IDEs, you can try Vim, Emacs (which can be run both in CLI mode using emacs -no-window and in GUI mode) or even the user-friendly Nano. This is the simplest way of creating and compiling C or C++ code. The output, myapp, will automatically be executable, so to run it.
Save it with CTRL+O, then exit Nano using CTRL+X. Notice that I also included a newline after the close bracket, otherwise the compiler will issue a warning.
Next, create your source file using a text editor of choice (I used Nano for this example): But first, to install the GNU compiler and several other utilities for compiling sources, use:īuild-essential is a meta package - a package which only depends on other packages, so installing it will automatically install several tools like gcc, g++ and make. I think the simplest way to start with C/C++ in Ubuntu is to use first an editor like Nano and create a source file, then compile it using gcc (GNU Compiler Collection) in command line. According to the details I could find on #ubuntu Freenode, Code::Blocks will also be included in the Intrepid Ibex (the next Ubuntu release) repositories, in universe.īack to our topic. Instead, for those who would like a replacement which works and behaves the same way, I can warmly recommend Code::Blocks, which has an actively maintained port and it's easy to compile and install. I'll divert a little to say that Dev-C++, although a wonderful IDE on Windows, is no longer maintained, and even though a port used to be around for Linux, it was abandoned too (as far as I know).
In this article I'll give a few explanations on how to compile software for studying purposes on Linux (and particularly Ubuntu), what are the most common ways, what I consider to be the most effective method and which are the most popular applications to use for programming in those languages. Most of them study C or C++ at school or home and are usually used from Windows with an IDE like Dev-C++ or Code::Blocks. One of the many questions users who switch from Windows to Linux have is how to compile C/C++ sources and what IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) Linux has to offer.
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