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CLion 2018.1 EAP: debug on WSL, code folding of the control statements and more

Anastasia Kazakova
Anastasia Kazakova

Hi all,

Last week we started CLion 2018.1 EAP. And now it’s time to announce a new build (181.3263.17). No license is required for this build, and you can install it side by side with your stable CLion version.

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Debug on WSL

Last time we announced WSL support in CLion, which is an opportunity to use native Linux development toolchain (CMake, C and C++ compilers) when developing on Windows. And now debug on WSL is available! There are some known issues and limitations, so it’s only available under the Registry option for now: cidr.wsl.enableGDB.

Upd. Latest CLion 2018.1 EAP comes with the WSL debugger on by default.

Check the WSL debugger is now available for you in the WSL toolchain:
WSL_debugger

When you debug your program, it will be run on WSL subsystem with WSL debugger (via the ssh connection).

Known issues and limitations:

  • Run to cursor doesn’t work with WSL (CPP-11902)

Code folding of the control statements

Control statements (if/else, do/while, for, switch) can now be folded/expanded via Shift+Ctrl+Period/Ctrl+= on Linux/Windows and ⇧⌘./⌘+ on macOS. It works for any block with more than one line of code or any block inside the braces:
Fold statement

And more

Other fixes and improvements include:

  • Incorrect unreachable code inspection for the catch section of function-level try-catch block is fixed(CPP-3094)
  • When analysing try section in the try-catch block, DFA now takes into account that dynamic_cast, new and overloaded operators can throw exceptions (CPP-11594)
  • An ability to use existing $VAR values when specifying environment variables for CMake is added (CPP-3716)
  • Some performance improvements when including a file via the code completion

Full release notes are available by the link.

Download the build (or wait for a patch update in case you are using previous EAP build), check the improvements and let us know your feedback.

CLion 2017.3.3 bug-fix update

We also are happy to announce another bug-fix update for v2017.3 – CLion 2017.3.3 (build 173.4548.31). It includes the fix for the regression with K&R functions (CPP-6702) and some IntelliJ-platform fixes. Full release notes are available here. Patch update is available from CLion 2017.3.2.

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