CLion 2018.3 EAP: remote development on Windows, high-contrast theme and other platform improvements

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Anastasia Kazakova

Hi,

The new CLion 2018.3 EAP (build 183.3795.17) is now available!

If you have the previous EAP build installed, simply get a patch-update right in the IDE. Or use Toolbox App or snap packages (in the case of Ubuntu) to get this update. No license is required and the build is free to use, but it will expire within 30 days of the build date.

Download CLion 2018.3 EAP

Remote toolchain support on Windows

CLion 2018.3 EAP introduced initial remote development support. Now it’s possible to use Windows as a local machine, in addition to Linux and macOS.
remote_host_windows

A few things are worth mentioning:

  • Because of the IntelliJ platform issue with case sensitivity, you need to add property (Help | “Edit Custom Properties…”) idea.case.sensitive.fs=true, restart CLion and rebuild the project index (File | “Invalidate Caches and Restart”) after that.
  • On Linux and macOS CLion uses rsync to synchronize sources. On Windows CLion relies on tar and CLion’s own Remote Host Access utilities, and it seems to be slower than native rsync on macOS and Linux (CPP-14440).

High Contrast Theme

The new high-contrast theme implemented in IntelliJ Platform has finally landed in CLion EAP. You can access it via Settings/Preferences | Appearance & Behavior | Appearance | UI Options (to switch the whole IDE) or via the Ctrl+` shortcut (to switch the editor only).
high_contrast
The work is still in progress and we would appreciate your feedback very much!

IntelliJ Platform improvements

There are more enhancements in CLion 2018.3 EAP coming from IntelliJ Platform. They include:

  • Git submodules support: repository with submodules are cloned recursively, Diff, History, and Conflict resolution now work for submodule folders, and updating the project correctly updates the submodules (IDEA-64024).
  • A new GitHub Pull Requests tool window was added to view all pull requests from your GitHub repository as a list inside the IDE.
  • A new experimental Activity Monitor (Help | Activity Monitor) was added to show how much CPU the subsystems and plugins (both built-in and additionally installed) are consuming.
  • Plugins UI: Preferences/Settings | Plugins page got a fresh look, making it easier to manage, install, uninstall, and update the plugins:
    plugins_ui_settings

Full release notes are available by the link.

To catch up on all the new features in v2018.3, check out the previous EAP blog posts:

CLion 2018.2.5

Besides, CLion 2018.2.5 bug-fix update (build 182.4892.24) is now available! It addresses an issue with Replace in Path / Find in path dialogs losing focus (IDEA-198588), a problem with GitHub token creation (IDEA-198120) and deleting with Backspace issue (CPP-13177). Full release notes are available here.

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40 Responses to CLion 2018.3 EAP: remote development on Windows, high-contrast theme and other platform improvements

  1. haha says:
    October 18, 2018 at 4:57 pm

    In Windows 10, can’t download C++ standard library header files,
    file content is empty, shows:

    File includes inline header (csdio, iostream, map, vector…and so on) with length (-1 characters) that execeeds configured limit for C/C++ (500000 characters). Header is not parsed.

    But not the C++ standard library header file can be downloaded.

    Reply
    • Anastasia Kazakova says:
      October 18, 2018 at 10:19 pm

      You mean when you set the remote toolchain?

      Reply
    • Vasily Romanikhin says:
      October 19, 2018 at 6:08 am

      It seems you have met this problem: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CPP-14464.

      The reason of the issue is a bug in our tar utility which works incorrectly with symlinks.
      As workaround you can try: go to Find Action (Shift+Ctrl+A) > Registry and disable clion.remote.compress.tar option, then reload CMake.

      Also could you please leave a description of you remote environment (OS version, compilers) in the ticket. Thanks in advance.

      Reply
      • haha says:
        October 19, 2018 at 7:20 am

        My environment:
        local machine: Windows 10 1803
        remote host: vmware virtual machine, Ubuntu 18.04 in docker
        gcc version: 7.3

        I will try this workaround, thank you!

        Reply
  2. okman says:
    October 19, 2018 at 3:15 am

    When will the stable 2018.3 version be released?

    Reply
  3. Rathkan says:
    October 19, 2018 at 4:52 am

    There appears to be a problem with this EAP build; on patching I got this error on CentOS 7.4:

    “java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /clion-183.3283.6/bin/libdbm64.so: libdbusmenu-glib.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”

    I fixed the problem by installing “libdbusmenu” using the command:

    “sudo yum install libdbusmenu”.

    Reply
  4. Signer says:
    October 19, 2018 at 5:08 am

    According to new Activity Monitor cidr.lang.preprocessor consistently takes 50-70% of CPU time when parsing UE4 source files – is there some workaround for this, or will it be fixed soon?

    Reply
  5. Luca Spinazzola says:
    October 19, 2018 at 8:15 pm

    Any code insight updates for kotlin using the multiplatform plugin?

    Reply
    • Anastasia Kazakova says:
      October 20, 2018 at 11:46 pm

      The team was recently busy with KotlinConf, so didn’t have enough time to prepare an update, but should be ready quite soon.

      Reply
  6. Gabriel S says:
    October 22, 2018 at 5:25 am

    Hi
    I would like to use the remote compilation server feature (from Windows 10 to Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS) but the CMake project loading seems frozen at the end of project loading because background task “Loading CMake project…” never ends. The IDE is usable, I can write code but no way to compile or run anything because the step is not completed.

    I tried with a small example project from https://cmake.org/cmake-tutorial and the same step is quite long but at the end it prints “[Finished]” and i can compile and execute ! So I think my config is ok

    My Toolchains config is:
    Remote Linux Host
    Credentials: Key pair OpenSSH or PuTTY
    Debugger: Remote Host GDB

    But with my project, which is really big (several MB of code) this step never ends. My deduction is that CLion wants to load all symbols before consider the loading finished (and si print the “[Finished]” tag).

    I noted that it is downloading several files paths****.tar.gz files but they look empty (0 kB)

    Can you have a look ?
    I think the symbols loading should not block the project loading, maybe a few adjustments do do 😉

    Thank you
    Gabriel

    **Cmake log**
    — Configuring done
    — Generating done
    — Build files have been written to: /tmp/tmp.kYWky6A19U/cmake-build-relwithdebinfo

    **File Transfer log**
    [22.10.2018 07:05] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8)
    [22.10.2018 07:05] Download file ‘/tmp/tmp.kYWky6A19U/cmake-build-relwithdebinfo/CMakeCache.txt’ to ‘C:\Users\user\Documents\server\cmake-build-relwithdebinfo\CMakeCache.txt’
    [22.10.2018 07:05] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8) completed in less than a minute: 1 file transferred (315.6 kbit/s)
    [22.10.2018 07:06] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8)
    [22.10.2018 07:06] Download file ‘/tmp/clion.dir.archive.tar.gz’ to ‘C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\paths8.tar.gz’
    [22.10.2018 07:06] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8) completed in less than a minute: 1 file transferred (5.2 Mbit/s)
    [22.10.2018 07:06] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8)
    [22.10.2018 07:06] Download file ‘/tmp/clion.dir.archive.tar.gz’ to ‘C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\paths10.tar.gz’
    [22.10.2018 07:06] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8) completed in less than a minute: 1 file transferred (9.8 Mbit/s)
    [22.10.2018 07:07] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8)
    [22.10.2018 07:07] Download file ‘/tmp/clion.dir.archive.tar.gz’ to ‘C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\paths8.tar.gz’
    [22.10.2018 07:07] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8) completed in less than a minute: 1 file transferred (132.5 kbit/s)
    [22.10.2018 07:07] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8)
    [22.10.2018 07:07] Download file ‘/tmp/clion.dir.archive.tar.gz’ to ‘C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\paths5.tar.gz’
    [22.10.2018 07:07] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8) completed in less than a minute: 1 file transferred (74.3 kbit/s)
    [22.10.2018 07:07] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8)
    [22.10.2018 07:07] Download file ‘/tmp/clion.dir.archive.tar.gz’ to ‘C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\paths3.tar.gz’
    [22.10.2018 07:07] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8) completed in less than a minute: 1 file transferred (9.9 Mbit/s)
    [22.10.2018 07:07] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8)
    [22.10.2018 07:07] Download file ‘/tmp/clion.dir.archive.tar.gz’ to ‘C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\paths8.tar.gz’
    [22.10.2018 07:07] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8) completed in less than a minute: 1 file transferred (1.1 Mbit/s)
    [22.10.2018 07:07] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8)
    [22.10.2018 07:07] Download file ‘/tmp/clion.dir.archive.tar.gz’ to ‘C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\paths4.tar.gz’
    [22.10.2018 07:07] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8) completed in less than a minute: 1 file transferred (2 Mbit/s)
    [22.10.2018 07:09] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8)
    [22.10.2018 07:09] Download file ‘/tmp/clion.dir.archive.tar.gz’ to ‘C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\paths5.tar.gz’
    [22.10.2018 07:09] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8) completed in less than a minute: 1 file transferred (95 kbit/s)
    [22.10.2018 07:10] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8)
    [22.10.2018 07:10] Download file ‘/tmp/clion.dir.archive.tar.gz’ to ‘C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\paths10.tar.gz’
    [22.10.2018 07:10] Download from ssh://user@server:22 (a54e68e7-ae26-45e0-841f-a77cb3292eb8) completed in less than a minute: 1 file transferred (531.9 kbit/s)

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  7. Steffen J says:
    October 22, 2018 at 8:38 am

    When using forward declaration (OOP like coding in C => information hiding, struct is defined in the c file only, forward declaration in header), CLion is stating “File is too complex to perfom context-sensitive data-flow analysis …”. Is this a bug?

    /* forward declaration */
    typedef struct Test Test;

    Beside of that, when CLion finds duplicate entries or for example typedefs, it doesn’t show me where they are, just that they exist. Any idea what I’m doing wrong or is this a missing feature?

    Reply
    • Anastasia Kazakova says:
      October 22, 2018 at 12:18 pm

      DFA indeed might be too complex and to keep the performance acceptable we have some limitations in it. So you can just turn it off in the inspection settings (Preferences/Settings | Editor | Inspections | C/C++ | Data Flow Analysis).

      Regarding the duplicate entries, could you please show the screenshot of what you mean here?

      Reply
  8. Steffen J says:
    October 22, 2018 at 9:13 am

    I have to admit, I don’t like the default themes. In the end, I cloned the VS dark theme. The Visual Studio Code theme would also be enough. Are there some limitations, licence restrictions why you don’t have them?

    Reply
    • Anastasia Kazakova says:
      October 22, 2018 at 12:20 pm

      We can’t simply copy and use the theme from other IDE, not only because licensing questions (which happen sometimes), but mostly because we have to reimplmenet it on our side and it requires some resources: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-143149. In the comments for this ticket you can find some custom themes from the internet that maybe suite you better. Please check.

      Reply
  9. Erlandas B says:
    October 23, 2018 at 1:51 pm

    Hello, will there be update for remote valgrind support?

    Reply
  10. Krzysiek says:
    October 30, 2018 at 7:32 pm

    A few remarks about the current state of remote development in CLion:
    1. It would be nice to have a possibility to open project directly from remote server (I would like to open cmake project created on Linux from CLion on Windows). NetBeans has similar functionality.
    2. CLion should copy also GIT files to the remote server. On server side I have to run extra tasks on repo before I push changes to GitHub repository, without git files it is impossible. I prefer console over GUI for GIT.
    3. Missing access from Terminal to remote server (project files), there is only access to Local terminal.

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