Setting up a Programming Environment in Linux

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user6328 picture user6328 · Oct 21, 2008 · Viewed 15.6k times · Source

I recently started using Linux as my primary OS. What are the tools that I will need to set up a complete programming environment in Linux for C and C++?

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swilliams picture swilliams · Oct 21, 2008

Standard stuff:

  • The compiler tools, gcc, gdb, etc.
  • Some sort of editor/IDE (emacs, vim, eclipse)
  • Profiling tools
  • Source Control (SubVersion, git, etc)
  • Language specific tools, like easy_install for python (you said C/C++, but the same goes for everything)
  • A web server maybe? Apache, Lighttpd, nginx
  • Any libraries you'll be using. Are you doing kernal hacking? Driver development? opengl?

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