Software Development; C.6 Software Development - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP1 - GNOME 23-05-2007 Manual

C.6 Software Development

This section introduces Linux IDEs, toolkits, development tools, and versioning systems for
professional software development.
Table C-6
Task
Integrated Development
Environments
Toolkits
Compilers
Debugging Tools
GUI Design
Versioning Systems
Anjuta
CVS
Eclipse
Eric
GCC
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Windows Application
Borland C++, Delphi, Visual Studio,
.NET
MFC, Qt, GTK+
VisualStudio
Visual Studio
Visual Basic, Visual C++
Clearcase, Perforce, SourceSafe
Anjuta is an IDE for GNOME/GTK+ application development. It includes an editor with
automated formatting, code completion, and highlighting. As well as GTK+, it supports Perl,
Pascal, and Java development. A GDB-based debugger is also included. Find more information
about Anjuta at http://anjuta.sourceforge.net
CVS, the Concurrent Versions System, is one of the most important version control systems for
open source. It is a front-end to the Revision Control System (RCS) included in the standard
Linux distributions. Find more information at the home page
www.cvshome.org/).
The Eclipse Platform is designed for building integrated development environments that can be
extended with custom plug-ins. The base distribution also contains a full-featured Java
development environment. Find more information at
www.eclipse.org).
Eric is an IDE optimized for Python and Python-Qt development. Find more information about
Eric at http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/eric3.html (http://www.die-offenbachs.de/detlev/
eric3.html).
GCC is a compiler collection with front-ends for various programming languages. Check out a
complete list of features and find extensive documentation at
gcc.gnu.org).
Linux Application
KDevelop, Eric, Eclipse,
MonoDevelop, Anjuta
Qt, GTK+
GCC
GDB, valgrind
Glade, Qt Designer
CVS, Subversion
(http://anjuta.sourceforge.net).
http://www.cvshome.org/ (http://
http://www.eclipse.org (http://
http://gcc.gnu.org (http://