Much Thanks! I think that this answers the original posters question
(and my own). I can't tell you how much I appreciate this.
art
On 10/30/2026 12:10 PM, Pablo wrote:
If you want completely non-Microsoft IDEs that treat Cygwin
GCC/GDB as first-class citizens on Windows:
1. *CLion (JetBrains):* The gold standard. Has a literal “Cygwin”
dropdown in Toolchain settings that discovers |/bin/gcc| and
GDB in |C:\cygwin64| automatically. CMake/Makefile first.
(Commercial, but best-in-class).
2. *Code::Blocks:* FOSS, zero bloat, runs natively on Windows
with a dedicated “GNU GCC Compiler for Cygwin” profile. UI is
retro wxWidgets, but it does exactly what it says on the tin.
3. *Qt Creator (Windows):* Don’t be fooled by the name—it’s a
top-tier generic C/C++ IDE (not just for Qt). You can define a
Cygwin Kit with your GCC/GDB paths, and its clangd-powered
code model beats almost anything else.
4. *Eclipse CDT:* The old-school veteran. It has explicit “Cygwin
GCC” project wizard templates and GDB debug targets.
(And if you’re feeling nostalgic for NetBeans’ classic CND
toolchain autodetection, you can still pull the legacy CND plugin
into Apache NetBeans via the 8.2 plugin portal or use the modern
CPPLite/clangd setup).
On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 7:39 PM slipbits <[email protected]> wrote:
They complained about me. Call it a collective colleague abduction.
Any news on a Windows/cygwin IDE?
art
On 10/30/2026 11:35 AM, Pablo wrote:
so did "they" bring you back to earth or did you come back by
yourself?
just wondering if they brought you back, they must have had a
reason, did they complain about anything?
On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 7:19 PM slipbits <[email protected]>
wrote:
Talk about alien abductions. I was abducted once and brought
to Earth.
Well, anyone know an outstanding C/C++ IDE for windows/cygwin?
As to VS<anything>. I really don't much trust Microsoft. I
have used both VS Studio and VS Code. The VS Studio compiler,
when I used it, seemed really bad, and the developers seemed
to always look at the answer and not the problem.
Anecdotally, their implementation of a switch statement was
not as a goto branch list but as a binary search tree. That
is a really bad choice. About VS Code I am ambivalent.
art
On 10/30/2026 11:07 AM, Pablo wrote:
flameproof suit on? i don't think so
Tulach, the very geninious og creator of netbeans went rogue
and moved to VsCode, he has a little group ("sect" wouldn't
be the word) of rogue netbeans developers that are
siffoning netbeans java code parsing logic for the "make
benefit" of VsCode
this is where they hide
https://github.com/apache/netbeans-vscode
be careful, they could try to abduct you
On Fri, Oct 30, 2026 at 7:00 PM Peter Milesson via users
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Charles,
You could always try Qt Creator if you're on Linux.
Archlinux has got
the best and most recent setup IMHO. You can create
"normal" C/C++
applications with Qt Creator also, not only Qt stuff.
Debugging and
profiling works well. If you go into Qt, the
documentation is HUGE, and
detailed, and it's not always easy to get a good
overview, with a very
large example library. Qt Creator is what I use for
Linux C/C++
application development since many years.
And there's also Microsoft VSCode for Linux (flameproof
suit on). It's a
good GUI tool.
Just my 5 cents...
Peter
On 30.10.2026 17:30, Charles Bradshaw via users wrote:
> I'm trying to enable C/C++ support for the Linux tool
chain., gcc,
> make and gdb. I was also hoping to get some code
formatting and
> perhaps even library search code completion.
>
> I am following this:
>
https://netbeans.apache.org/tutorial/main/kb/docs/cnd/toolchain/#_tool_collections,
> but I fall over at step1 Make sure your NetBeans
installation includes
> the NetBeans Plugin Development module.
>
> Because my Netbeans installation, version 3.1, has
no 'Development
> module'. Step 2, Create a new NetBeans module by
choosing File > New
> Project. On the Choose Project page of the New Project
wizard, select
> the category NetBeans Modules
>
> Again I have no NetBeans to select under 'New Project'
>
> Am I missing something obvious ??
>
>
>
>
>
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