On 18 September 2013 21:45, Manu <turkey...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 18 September 2013 19:44, Joseph Rushton Wakeling < > joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net> wrote: > >> On 18/09/13 02:45, Manu wrote: >> >>> The extent of my experience with QtCreator is that it has a button >>> "Generate VS >>> Project" in the menu, which I clicked on, and then I opened visual >>> studio. >>> For the few moments that I used it, I was surprised by now >>> un-like-eclipse it >>> looked :) >>> Maybe it's decent? What's it's underlying project/build system? >>> I have ex-trolltech mates who are now all unemployed... so what's the >>> future of >>> the tool? >>> >> >> I had the impression the future was very positive, ever since Digia >> acquired Qt from Nokia a couple of years back. >> >> AFAIK it can use make, cmake or qmake as project build systems and can >> use GDB, CDB (Microsoft?) and Valgrind for debugging. I don't have enough >> IDE experience to really make any judgement, but I wondered if it might >> meet your needs as a light, cross-platform IDE. >> > > The problem I've always had with make-based build systems is rebuild > dependencies... how do any of those build systems go performing a minimal > rebuild, or incremental linking? >
And of course their edit-and-continue support to update a binary while debugging and continue debugging the edited binary with your code tweak (an extension from incremental linking)...