Beginners' guide for setting up Emacs with gcc/gdb?

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Yuval Adam picture Yuval Adam · Apr 23, 2009 · Viewed 13.2k times · Source

I looked around the GNU emacs material and didn't find anything helpful.

Does anyone know of a good tutorial for setting up emacs, to basically turn it into an IDE? I'm looking for interfacing with gcc/gdb/make, etc...

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Laurynas Biveinis picture Laurynas Biveinis · Apr 23, 2009

Like other answers mentioned, M-x compile, M-x gdb will get you going. While debugging, I'd also suggest gdb-many-windows-mode, which makes Emacs look a bit closer to IDE when debugging.

Besides that and to get closer to "IDE-like features", you can look at:

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