From mikea@norfolk.nf

In Brief:

• Kdevelop is the next generation of IDE (integrated develepmont environment) tools for the C/C++ programmer. It is compatible with Gnome, as well as (obviously) standard K applications. This product is very, very, good.
• The Kdevelop environment is Qt intensive, most of the work revolves around this generic library from Norway. Kdevelop provides c++ classes and widgets for both Qt and, separately, kde applications. All donkey-work can be achieved via wizards, and the wizards work!
• Separately, Kdevelop offers you the opportunity to write your code using the emerging KDE2 (QT2) standards. (multi-threading == KDE2).
• Using wizards, you can generate code for standard terminal applications, up to and including Kwidgets,
• The documentation provided with this product is outstanding. They deserve a  medal. It is all available in help screens and covers EVERYTHING.
• In addition, any package YOU write, is auto documented. Kdevelop automatically generates html pages for all classes you write, as well as a 'handbook' for you to fill in with appropriate detail. The depth of detail and cross reference links provided by the auto-document feature is staggeringly good.
• Step and debug is naturally available.
• Generating gui panels and dialogs is achieved by the kdialog wizard.

• Installing glimpse (a search engine)
• Upgrading to Kdevelop 1.1
• Installing the c++ reference library

1) The glimpse package is not supplied. Go to

  rpmfind.net

and download

glimpse-4.1-83.i386.rpm

The package is caldera friendly

2) A better revision.

Some minor, but irritating bugs were fixed on version 1.1 Unfortunately, the redhat and mandrake rpms of this newer package are unfriendly. This is where you need to be:

www.kdevelop.org

Download the tarball

ftp://altair.dhs.org/pub/kdevelop/kdevelop-1.1.tar.gz

As usual, with most tarballs these days, this one compiles 'out of the box'

do this
tar -zxvf kdevelop-1.1.tar.gz
cd kdevelop-1.1
(dot)(slash)configure
make
make install

BEFORE doing the last step, remove your current kdevelop rpm (using kpackage, or rpm -e) if you installed it.

Note also, that during the 'configure' step it will complain noisily if you do not have the STATIC qt libraries installed. Specifically 'moc' dependencies. Make sure you have rpm installed all relevant qt libraries before moving to kdevelop as they are intertwined.

3) Installing c++ reference documentation

SInce I hardly know c++ (but a great deal about C), i found this reference very handy. It merges into the existing Kdevelop environment without you doing one thing further.

Download here (1 meg)

tar -zxvf c_cpp_reference-1.0.tar.gz
cd c_cpp_reference
(dot)(slash)configure
make
make install
 

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