What IDE should be used for C ++ on Windows?

Question

Which C ++ IDE should I use on Windows?

Is there an IDE with support for editing via SSH on a GNU / Linux server?

I have a very large project in C ++ without documents and editing it with a text editor is very difficult = (

Answer 1

On Windows, I prefer:

Visual Studio + WinSCP

Answer 2

On Windows, it's hard to beat the freely available Visual Studio Express .

A viable alternative would be Qt Creator , which is lightweight and comes with a completely awesome Qt library.

Answer 3

Eclipse is a very powerful editor for both C ++ and many other languages. Looks like you want to upgrade from a Windows system to Linux?

WinSCP allows you to edit files through SSH.

If your project is stored in CVS, Subversion, Git, Mercurial, etc. - Eclipse has plugins for integration with them ...

Answer 4

Take a look at Netbeans 6.8 , in particular the Remote Development section:

Use the development node manager in the C / C ++ options window to identify remote hosts. You can then use the development tools on these hosts to create and run projects from your client system. Take advantage of faster synchronization with the remote host.

I was very pleased with using Netbeans remote debugging for a PHP project. Just configure it and at startup it will automatically switch ssh files to the remote server.

Alternatively, Visual Studio offers perhaps the best C ++ editor for developing Windows C ++, and you can script to upload it to the linux server.

Finally, you can also explore the Eclipse CDT.

Answer 5

devC ++ seems interesting. It is free and uses MinGW as the POSIX layer. This is great if you are interested in cross-platform development on Windows and Linux / UNIX.

Answer 6

If your Linux block has x libraries, you can run eclipse cdt and use the cygwin x server to display it on Windows. I used this setting because the USB ports stopped working in my Solaris window. The results are very good. Eclipse works in my Solaris window, but behaves like a Windows application in my window window, the code builds and runs on Solaris, copies and pastes works most of the time, too.

Run x server on the windows. Use putty for ssh for your Linux package with x forwarding. Launch eclipse and it will appear on the windows. Use nohup to keep the eclipse alive if you close the putty.

Answer 7

CodeBlocks

It comes with MinGW.

Answer 8

For editing, you can use basically any editor with FTP / SFTP support (I used jEdit : free, a great tool with plugin downloads, played with SlickEdit : really cool, but quite expensive) or map the target drive in Windows using Samba or whatever something like that. Then to compile / build use Putty plink .

Answer 9

For ssh support, I would say putty and emacs-on-server is an option. :)

Answer 10

For a programming project stored on a linux server, I prefer Git. I don’t know if more people are involved, but using git can make group programming a lot easier.

And as an IDE, I prefer Visual Studio. RC 2010 is now available on MSDN. Visual Studio 2010 . Maybe you should try it.