10 tools C C++ Linux Programmer must know
10 must know tools to become pro in C/C++ on UNIX/Linux platform. Good internet resources are also mentioned.
1. Basic commands
http://mally.stanford.edu/~sr/computing/basic-unix.html
http://pangea.stanford.edu/computing/unix/shell/commands.php
http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/unix/unix_cmd.html
2. Editor – vi, Emacs
http://www.atmos.albany.edu/deas/atmclasses/atm350/vi_cheat_sheet.pdf
http://cmgm.stanford.edu/classes/unix/emacs.html
3. Build utilities – make/Cmake
http://frank.mtsu.edu/~csdept/FacilitiesAndResources/make.htm
http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake_tutorial.html
4. Debugger – gdb
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~gilpin/tutorial/
5. Version control – cvs, svn, git
http://mrsrl.stanford.edu/~brian/cvstutorial/
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~vailen/svn_howto.htm
http://maverick.inria.fr/~Xavier.Decoret/resources/svn/index.html
http://www.vogella.com/articles/Git/article.html
6. Code viewing tools – ctags, cscope
http://www.linux-tutorial.info/modules.php?name=Howto&pagename=C-editing-with-VIM-HOWTO/random.html
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse451/12sp/tutorials/tutorial_cscope.html
http://cscope.sourceforge.net/cscope_vim_tutorial.html
7. IPC mechanisms
http://tldp.org/LDP/tlk/ipc/ipc.html
8. Multi-threading – Pthreads, BOOST library
https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/
http://ashishgrover.com/boost-multi-threadingfor-c/
9. Tools for memory issues – Purify, Valgrind
http://www.cprogramming.com/debugging/valgrind.html
http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~hasti/cs368/resources/purify.html
10. GUI – Qt
http://zetcode.com/gui/qt4/introduction/
http://www.digitalfanatics.org/projects/qt_tutorial/
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.3/tutorial.html
I have ensured that above links are working at the time of publishing this post.
You should really reconsider the CVS resources in your list
New things have emerged sinced the end of XXth century (subversion, git, mercurial,…)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software
Well, having said that, I confess I still use vi 😀
Hi jcfds,
Agreed on version control. Added SVN, git
vi is a beneficial addiction 🙂
You forgot to list emacs.
Updated link to Emacs. Thanks for pointing out.
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Thanks for writing this up. Most of your list is highly beneficial…a question about editors though?
Why limit the list of editors to vi and emacs? I’m a kernel developer, who happens to enjoy GUI editors and I’ve had no problems whatsoever. Did you mention those two for distros with no GUI? In fact the editors I use are fantastic and provide many features like indexing of code to easily jump to a referenced function definition. Just a curiosity
Based on what I have seen, there are more vi and emacs lovers than any other editor. Also, these non-GUI editors vi and emacs work on any distro, the one you use might need specific package. So, it is handy to have a mastery of these.
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