Compiling C in KDE

[Mark A. Taff]

On Monday 10 July 2006 15:19, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> John, thank you for the explanation! I should have maybe been clearer
> as to my intentions:
> I'm studying C in the university. Sometimes I make five hundred small
> changes to very simple code and need to run it after each change. This
> is where the ability to run within the editor is important. We're not
> learning to create GUIs, rather it is an introductory course
> (recursive functions, arrays, pointers, etc). I need an editor that I
> can compile and run code inside the editor- an IDE in other words.
>
> I think I'm just going to reinstall XP for the remainder of the next
> two semesters and use Dev-cpp. I can't believe that for one stupid
> program I have to give up on Kubuntu. But I must finish this
> assignment by tomorrow and this is getting ridiculous.
>
> Please, if anybody knows of an IDE that runs on linux, let me know!
>
> Dotan Cohen

Dotan,

What john explained should work fine for you, even if you don't fix your 
obviously flawed installation of kdevelop.

You can use Kate as your text-editor and project management, and run the make 
commands in the embedded terminal in kate.

Everytime you want to recompile your code you could just type `make`.

I really think you should just fix your install of kdevelop, though.

John's method does have the advantage to teaching you the underlying basics, 
which will prove quite valuable down the road.

Regards,

Mark