[cfe-dev] LLVM, Clang Development IDEs

Manuel Klimek via cfe-dev cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Fri Sep 11 01:59:36 PDT 2015


On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 7:59 PM Vladimir Voskresensky - Oracle via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hello Keith,
>
> I'm from Oracle (previously from Sun Microsystems) and use NetBeans C++
> IDE for
> developing Clang based tools.
>

Oh, this is awesome :)


> Till 8.0 version Netbeans had own parser (as Eclipse). Starting from
> upcoming
> 8.1 NB is trying to use some clang components in experimental mode.
>

Will this by any chance use the compilation database integration?


>
> Vladimir.
>
> On 09/10/15 03:17 AM, Keith Smith via cfe-dev wrote:
> > Mats, Renalto - Thanks for the information
> >
> > I beg to differ that Eclipse CDT hasn't caught on. The originator of
> > Eclipse CDT, QNX, and the maintainers, use Eclipse CDT as their IDE
> > for their OS. QNX is in many high end car nav systems today.
> >
> > Eclipse CDT is the basis for many embedded tool chains used by
> > firmware engineers, both in Linux and Windows.
> >
> > Eclipse CDT may not have caught on as a host OS, host app development
> > IDE, but it is used extensively.
> >
> > I have used it for over ten years now. It has had its limitations,
> > like no 'headless' builds, but that has been corrected.
> >
> > Anyway thanks for the info. I was afraid that emacs and vi(m) would be
> > part of the response. :( Don't use either at present.
> >
> > Keith Smith
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:35 AM, mats petersson <mats at planetcatfish.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 9 September 2015 at 15:03, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org>
> wrote:
> >>> On 9 September 2015 at 14:29, mats petersson <mats at planetcatfish.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Technically, I'm not an LLVM or Clang developer [by which I mean, I'm
> >>>> not
> >>>> contributing code to LLVM or Clang, although I do have a patch for
> clang
> >>>> that may make it in at some point], but I do use Emacs with cscope.
> >>> Honest question: how does cscope copes with C++11 constructs? I
> >>> finally gave up emacs when cscope was the only thing I could use and
> >>> it wasn't enough. Maybe I missed something?
> >>
> >> I have not tried on big projects, but I use cscope  on C++ in my hobby
> >> project compiler, which uses limited C++11 features, and it's not
> failing in
> >> any obvious way for this use-case. But llvm is "out of tree", and I
> >> typically use google and the online doxygen pages for LLVM searches.
> >>
> >> My main use is in my day-job, which is nearly all C, so C++11 is not a
> big
> >> issue - but the build we use has all of clang and llvm in the sources,
> and
> >> cscope is not failing in any obvious way, and I can search for
> "getType" and
> >> it finds a load of them. But I'm sure there may be more subtle things
> that I
> >> don't notice because when I use cscope in this project, I'm typically
> >> searching for C symbols, not C++ things.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> I'm not trying to start a war with Renato about "vi(m) vs (x)emacs" -
> >>>> it's
> >>>> pointless,
> >>> That was a joke. :)
> >>
> >> Sorry, my "sarcasticly pointing out the pointlessness of a editor
> flame-war"
> >> obviously didn't have the (right) sarcasm font... ;)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> it's just one of those choices one makes at some point in life -
> >>>> once you know enough to do things with ease in one, you end up not
> >>>> liking
> >>>> the other.
> >>> Yup. Especially as you get older... :)
> >>
> >> I've been old quite some time now... ;)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Mats
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> I'm sufficiently damaged that I type ESC+w to copy text in
> >>>> the browser - which of course doesn't work... :(
> >>> I type :wq and "i" everywhere, too. :)
> >>>
> >>> cheers,
> >>> --renato
> >>
> >
> >
>
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