Tips & Tricks

In this video, we show how CLion’s parameter hints and type hints help with reading and understanding C++ code, using a practical example. Parameter hints give the developer useful additional information about function calls, while type hints show deduced types in many different contexts. We show the various available features and configuration options that will help you work more effectively with

We recently released CLion 2021.3. As part of this update, we made it easier to configure Windows toolchains in CLion while making them more powerful at the same time. Check out this short video to learn about all the options that are available to you: 00:00 Intro 00:25 Bundled MinGW 01:21 Visual Studio toolchain with MSVC and Clang-cl 03:31 Working with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in CLi

We recently released CLion 2021.3. One of the most exciting new features in it is a new Docker toolchain that helps you compile, run, and debug your applications in Docker containers. Watch the video to learn more about it: 00:00 Intro 00:20 Preparing Docker with an `alpine` image 01:07 Creating Docker toolchain in CLion 03:40 Docker toolchain on Windows 04:32 WSL2 backend to run Docker 05:35 D

This tutorial shows how to set up a project in CLion for ESP32 development on Windows, covering all the necessary steps in great detail.

Today we have Greg Law with us. In this guest blog post, Greg will share a few top tips for debugging C++ code. Greg (@gregthelaw) is the co-founder and CEO at Undo. He is a programmer at heart, but likes to keep one foot in the software world and one in the business world. Greg finds it particularly rewarding to turn innovative software technology into real business develo

This if the third and final part of our Advanced Debugger series. If you haven't seen them, do catch: "Part 1: Suspended" and "Part 2: Dynamic" As well as the earlier, "Debugging Fundamentals" video. In this video we start by looking a direct access to the GDB or LLDB terminal, as well as running commands on start-up using .gdbinit or .lldbinit, then look at attaching to external process

Nearly a year ago, our guest Nick Brook, founder at NRB Tech, explained how to use CLion for nRF52. Today, Nick is back with a new tutorial focused on using CMake-based nRF Connect SDK in CLion. Read this tutorial from Nick and give it a try with CLion! IoT consultant and founder at NRB Tech Nick founded NRB Tech in 2018 to build useful and sustainable IoT (Internet of Things) products through

Following up on "Part 1: Suspended", of our Advanced Debugger series, Part 2 focuses on the dynamic part of working with breakpoints, watchpoints and setting the execution point. Because this an advanced series, we look beyond simply setting and removing breakpoints, and take a look at the different types of breakpoints we support, as well as all the options along with them. In many cases your bre

Back in October of last year I wrote "CLion Debugging – Part 1: Fundamentals", to introduce the everyday debugging features in CLion. It was "Part 1", because the promise was that I would follow up with a "Part 2", covering more advanced features. One thing you should never do is call something "Part 1" before you've written later parts! Part 2 has been a lo

How do embedded developers set up everything they need to do programming? A typical wired setup includes a device that stays on the developer’s table, and a ribbon cable that connects it to a debug probe, which in turn is connected to the developer's computer by a USB cable. The computer is running probe-specific software and an IDE. In many cases, this setup works fine. But embedded devices work

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 l

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 commi