CLion 2020.3 has reached Beta! Build 203.5981.40 is available from our website, via the Toolbox App, or as a snap package (for Ubuntu). DOWNLOAD CLION 2020.3 EAP The CLion 2020.3 EAP has already introduced a couple of performance-enhancing features to the debugger: A new Set Execution Point action Ability to debug Core Dumps And there’s even more in the Beta! Ability to run and debug with root privileges Interactive hints and Inline watches Run/debug as root CLion 2020.3 can run and debug your application with root privileges. A new setting “Run with Administrator privileges”/“Run

Have you checked out the new Core Dump debug that came in the CLion 2020.3 EAP last week? If not, we really recommend giving it a try. Meanwhile, we are moving forward through this EAP cycle with a new set of enhancements and fixes. Today in the EAP: A new action to create Qt UI Class files. A new Extract Lambda Parameter refactoring. Automatically add Excluded directories to the Exclude paths for remote configurations. An option added to disable Unused Value check for default variable initializers. A new set of MISRA checks. Build 203.5784.34 is available from our website, via the

As International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) sponsors and continuous supporters of many educational initiatives, JetBrains thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to run JetBrains Knowledge Day 2020 last week. This was a unique educational event to mark the beginning of the ICPC competitive season and academic year. Phil Nash, JetBrains C++ Tools developer advocate, gave a talk on using CLion since C++ is widely used in both competitive programming and education. This talk introduces some of the CLion features that can supercharge your coding. It covers completions, including smart comple

In the previous 2020.3 EAP build we were focused on giving run/debug configurations and CMake profiles more flexibility in CLion, and at the same time we introduced a bundled tool for collaborative development and pair programming. In this EAP update we are adding one of the most long-awaited features in debugger – postmortem debug with a core file! Build 203.5600.25 is available from our website, via the Toolbox App, and as a snap package (if you are using Ubuntu). DOWNLOAD CLION 2020.3 EAP Core dump (crash dump) debugging is a debugging approach in which core dump files are analyzed. These f

Like C/C++ and other native languages, Rust includes support for conditional compilation. The most common way to instruct the compiler whether to include or ignore a piece of code in compilation is to add a cfg attribute with the required condition. For example, you can use this mechanism to check the target architecture and switch code blocks at compile-time depending on the operating system. IntelliJ Rust detects conditionally disabled blocks in your project and excludes them from the codebase. This means that name resolution and analysis ignore those pieces, so you won't get errors and warn

In the previous 2020.3 EAP release, we introduced more profound support for Qt projects, enhancements for Google Test in the built-in test runner, and much more. This time we are focusing on improving the flexibility of existing functionality: An option to enable/disable CMake profiles in CLion. For Run/Debug configurations: The ability to configure an environment before executing a configuration by running a script. The ability to edit a configuration while indexing is still running. Code With Me, a tool for collaborative development and pair programming, is now bundled in CLion!

An important part of writing code is debugging. Despite the name this is not limited to just finding bugs in our code, but can help us to understand what the code is actually doing at runtime - often in a specific environment. While it's possible to do this to some extent using, so-called, "printf-debugging" (inserting code to write out messages and values to the console or a log file), that process is tedious, time-consuming, and very limited. Using a debugger well can make an order of magnitude difference in productivity at this stage - so it would be a shame not to learn our debugging tools

Earlier in September, we began the 2020.3 Early Access Program for CLion which introduces the following enhancements: CTest support An action to set execution point in the debugger Initial portion of MISRA C and C++ checks Clang completion snippets More Makefile projects support Today the new 2020.3 EAP build for CLion is available! Here is a brief overview of the highlights you will find in this new EAP version: Improved Google Test support. Recompile single file is now available for Makefile projects. Enhancements for Qt projects: code completion for Qt signals and slots, Q

Work on the new v2020.3 is in progress, and the CLion 2020.3 Early Access Program is now up and running. In the process, we’re doing our best to backport the essential bug-fixes to v2020.2, today we are releasing the CLion 2020.2.4 bug-fix update! Build 202.7660.37 is available for download from our website, via Toolbox App, or as a snap (for Ubuntu). A patch update will be available shortly. DOWNLOAD CLION Here are the most notable improvements: In the Clang-based engine: When terse syntax is used for C++20 Concepts, CLion no longer incorrectly highlights the concept as unused (CPP-20892).

Last week we started the CLion 2020.3 EAP which introduced CTest, some MISRA checks, Clang completion snippets, and a brand-new Set Execution Point debugger action. Today we are happy to share a fresh new EAP build with you! Build 203.4203.24 is available from our website, via the Toolbox App, or as a snap package (if you are using Ubuntu). DOWNLOAD CLION 2020.3 EAP Today, it’s all about Makefiles! Makefile project support was just recently introduced in CLion 2020.2. We are seeing growing interest and increased use of Makefile projects, and we definitely want to develop Makefile support furt

CLion comes with powerful debugger integration, giving you access to backend debuggers such as GDB and LLDB via a uniform UI. The IDE helps you debug efficiently with its built-in variables view, a variety of stepping and breakpoints options, evaluation of expressions, and memory and assembler views. With CLion 2020.3 EAP, we’ve added a new powerful option to control the execution flow during debugging – Set Execution Point. You might be aware of this feature if you’ve ever used Set Next Statement in Visual Studio or Jump to Line in IntelliJ IDEA. In brief, it allows you to move the execution

Our latest global developer survey shows that Google Test, Catch2, and Boost.Test are the three most popular frameworks for unit testing. CLion supports all of these, as well as doctest. We also know that CMake is the most trending project model in the C++ world. CTest, a testing tool distributed as part of CMake, is used to automate unit testing, which entails running tests and uploading the results to a dashboard. Looking at CTest as a CMake-specific test runner, you may think of it as something similar to CLion’s built-in test runner (even though it isn’t quite a straightforward comparison)