During the recent Q&A session on Reddit, we got a surprising number of questions about our plans for Meson support. Today we are going to show you how you can already use Meson-based projects in CLion. For this we will use compilation database support in CLion. Meson is a relatively new build system that strives to be fast yet simple to use. It converts build scripts written in a Python-like language into one of the backend build systems: Ninja (the default and recommended one), Visual Studio, or Xcode. Recently Meson has started to gain popularity among C++ developers. CLion currently doe

In the beginning of December, we released CLion 2020.3 with lots of improvements to the debugging experience, enhanced unit testing integration, and support for MISRA checks and Qt code. And today we’ve got a CLion 2020.3.1 bug-fix update for you with the first set of notable fixes and enhancements. Build 203.6682.181 is available for download from our website, via the Toolbox App, or as a snap (for Ubuntu). A patch update will be available shortly. DOWNLOAD CLION Apple Silicon Support (M1 chip) Great news for Apple fans! CLion 2020.3.1 now supports Apple Silicon. The previous CLion build was

Hi all, Welcome to the newest edition of C++ Annotated and its companion, the No Diagnostic Required YouTube show! They are now available in the following formats: The regular digest published monthly on this blog (use the form on the right to subscribe). C++ Annotated emails, which you can subscribe to by filling out this form. The No Diagnostic Required show here in the blog or on YouTube. To stay tuned, follow us on Twitter. You should be able to find us in most podcast players by searching for "No Diagnostic Required" (see the list on our website). December news 20 y

Last week we held an AMA session on Reddit. 7 of our team members (and a few more who helped behind the scenes) answered about 35 questions and participated in discussions spread over 118 comments in the threads under the post. After the session, we looked back at the questions to identify the areas where participants showed the most interest. Here’s what we found. 6 questions about project models After introducing Makefile projects support in v2020.2 and enhancing it significantly in v2020.3, we are now mostly getting questions about Bazel and, surprisingly, Meson. For Bazel, the Bazel plugi

In May 2020 we ran an exciting CLion Ask Me Anything session. 2 hours, 9 speakers, 7 demos, and 140+ questions that were really inspiring and motivating for the team and hopefully useful for the attendees! This time we’d like to try another format. We invite you to join our first-ever AMA session on Reddit, in r/cpp. This Q&A session will focus on the recent 2020.3 release, our overall plans for 2021, and the roadmap for v2021.1. ASK A QUESTION We’ll start answering your questions on Reddit at 1 pm CET, December 17, and will continue until 5 pm CET (visit this page to convert that to your

CLion 2020.3 provides an enhanced debugging experience and more capable unit testing with CTest support, takes the first steps toward an in-editor experience for MISRA C and C++ checks, has improvements for Qt and Makefile projects, and much more. As you are giving this new version a try, our team is collecting and listening to feedback and preparing the first set of fixes for the 2020.3.1 update coming in a few weeks. We’re also drawing up our goals for 2021 and creating a roadmap for the 2021.1 release. Special thanks Before we talk about the plans for the next release, let’s keep up our tra

In the first post of this series, we built a simple prototype project using an Arduino board. This second stage involves constructing a full-featured device that can display the current temperature and pressure with an atmospheric pressure chart, and can run off a single battery for several weeks. The source code is available on GitHub, and readers can follow along with the text in this post commit-by-commit. Hardware Hardware modding Full circuit assembly Firmware Configuring peripherals Writing code Power consumption MCU configuration changes to optimize power consumption F

This post is intended for CLion plugin authors. It explains what has changed during the 2020.3 release cycle and how you need to adjust your plugin. While CLion doesn’t provide any public plugin API for C/C++-related subsystems, a number of great plugins have been made using the limited API available. We’re very grateful to the authors for their efforts. If you have an idea about building a plugin for CLion or any other IntelliJ-based IDEs, please refer to the documentation, which will be updated shortly to reflect the contents of this post. You’ll find useful advice as well as a few sample pl

With CMake 3.15 it has become possible to use the Clang compiler on Windows with a GNU-style command line. This also means that it's possible to use Clang with the Mingw-w64 toolchain. While it’s possible to configure Clang with the Mingw-w64 (or MinGW) toolchain, if you decide to use Clang from the LLVM repo, it won’t work correctly. This is because LLVM Clang for Windows is built using Microsoft Visual Studio, and all the built-in macros and include search paths are set up for use with Visual Studio. So even when used with the MinGW toolchain, it will still try to include MSVC standard libra

Hi, Welcome to the newest edition of C++ Annotated. We have some exciting news for you – from now on we’ll be publishing monthly! Plus, in addition to the regular digest, we’re launching a YouTube show called No Diagnostic Required, hosted by Phil Nash, JetBrains Developer Advocate, and myself, Anastasia Kazakova, JetBrains C++ Tools PMM. And we’re going to do a podcast too! This means that C++ Annotated will be available in multiple formats: The regular digest which will now be published monthly on this blog (subscribe using the form on the right). C++ Annotated emails, which you can sub

In the previous blog post on IntelliJ Rust, we described the plugin’s major update of the 2020.3 release cycle – more support and a new UI for Cargo features. In brief, you can now toggle workspace features right in the Cargo.toml file, and code insight across the whole of your project will be adjusted accordingly. Now let’s take a look at the improvements that have been made to this functionality already, along with other updates the plugin has received over the last few months: More code insight for Cargo features Rustfmt as default formatter Improvements in refactorings New experimental e

This version is focused on the debugging experience and on the flexibility of the unit testing integration. Embedded developers will find support for the first collection of MISRA checks. CLion 2020.3 also introduces a variety of IDE functions tuned specifically for working with Qt code.