An IDE for C/C++ based on libclang and GtkSourceView.
At the moment, Caesar is meant to help writing code and nothing else. No project management, no compilation and no debugging. Please do all these things by writing proper build files, invoking the command line and using a standalone debugger.
- A compiler capable of C++11
- CMake
- libclang
- gtkmm3
- gtksourceviewmm3
- PkgConfig
Standard cmake procedure:
cmake -B build .
cmake --build build
or, for older versions of CMake:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
To use Caesar with your existing project, make sure your project exports a compile_commands.json
(this is the only thing that I know of that libclang accepts as input).
For a CMake project, you can achieve that by enabling the flag CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS.
Caesar itself and the little testcode project inside are
set up to export the commands, so you can use them as a first try.
In the "new project" tab, select the folder of your project (used to search for files) and the build directory (used to find the build configuration).
The IDE is under development and contains some rough edges. Many things that are supposed to work automatically at a later stage still require manual interaction, like requesting code completions and updating the directory tree. Also, the IDE does not notice when an open file changed on disk and might unknowingly overwrite it when you save. Unexpected exceptions (which should only occur on wrong usage) will cause a crash instead of a notification dialog.
Bottom line: Use at your own risk.