On June 23 we ran a live webinar, “CLion 101 and Beyond”. Phil Nash demonstrated how to install CLion and get up and running with it quickly, and gave an overview of the top productivity-boosting features you should check out first. The recording of the webinar is now available on the JetBrainsTV YouTube channel. Here are some useful timestamps so you can quickly jump to the section you’re most interested in: 01:42 – Installation & Initial setup, configuring toolchains 14:43 – Create a New Project, Build and Run 17:11 – Toolbox App 18:30 – Windows setup, configuring the toolchains

CLion 2020.2 EAP2 brings long-awaited Makefile project support. While it’s still in its early stages with various limitations and known issues, it’s good enough to cope with a long list of projects already. Do you have a Makefile project? Grab the free EAP build and give it a try now. Share your feedback with us! In this blog post we’ll answer: How does it work under the hood? How to start with your Makefile project in CLion? What can I do if something goes wrong and my project fails to load correctly? What are the known issues and limitations? (more…)

In the C++ ecosystem there is more than one unit testing framework. Google Test is the one used the most. Boost.Test is obviously gaining in popularity among the Boost community. Catch(2) is relatively new but also growing impressively. Meanwhile, several years ago at CppCon there was an inspiring presentation by Viktor Kirilov of yet another framework called doctest. Viktor told our audience about it in the guest blog post in ReSharper C++ blog, once the support was added there. In a nutshell, doctest is a fast single-header framework, with self-registering tests. It’s safe: uses thread-sa

In May 2019, the JetBrains team attended several events in Israel. We were inspired by the fantastic and welcoming C++ community in Tel Aviv, the old city of Jaffa, and Haifa. While the main goal of the trip was a brand-new conference – Core C++ (check out the trip report), we also had a great evening at the Haifa::C++ meetup and even ran our own event – JetBrains Night Tel Aviv 2019! We gave several talks there on C++ and .NET development in general and our tools in particular. In this blog post, we’d like to highlight one of those talks. What does it mean to be productive when developing

You’ve probably heard that dogfooding at JetBrains is a mission-critical part of our development process. You may also know that we build our own JetBrains Runtime to provide a runtime environment for running IntelliJ-based products. It’s based on OpenJDK, and so, obviously, it’s a great opportunity for dogfooding in CLion. Besides, there is a huge community contributing to OpenJDK that often asks about tips & tricks for dealing with the native part of the OpenJDK project in CLion. There are already several tried and tested collections of tips & tricks from the community leads. In t

Update: Makefile projects support is now public in CLion 2020.2. What request in our tracker has more than 1000 votes, 370 comments, and 800 watchers? You guessed it: Support Makefile projects. This has been a story of interesting findings, semi-automatic workarounds, and a long battle that we still plan to win! If you’d like to get the latest news on this topic, please read on. From past to present: the evolution of project models in CLion Support for Makefile projects: How-to Option 1: Compiler wrappers Option 2: LD_PRELOAD Option 3: Parse the output of Make Support fo

Are you interested in embedded development? In this guest blog post Nick Brook, founder at NRB Tech, shows how to use CLion for nRF52. IoT consultant and founder at NRB Tech. Nick founded NRB Tech in 2018 to build useful and sustainable IoT products through a combination of in-depth hardware, software and user experience expertise. Nordic's nRF52 series of Bluetooth Low Energy System-on-Chips (SoCs) are versatile and widely used in IoT products, supporting many different applications. Nordic provides a very comple

One of the common questions we get is why there is no Docker integration in CLion? In fact CLion works very nicely with Docker! There might not (yet) be a specific, “use Docker”, button - but setting it up yourself is actually quite easy and straightforward - even if you’re a Docker newbie! Read on if you prefer written instructions, or watch this video with the same content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h69XLiMtCT8 Why use Docker? Getting Docker Creating a Docker container for use with CLion. Using the Remote Development workflow with Docker Changing the Docker envir

Concepts are one of the biggest features coming in C++20, and knowing that, we’ve been thinking about supporting Concepts in CLion for quite a while. Enter Saar Raz with his C++20’s Concepts implementation in Clang! Long story short, we have been collaborating with Saar to merge his branch into our custom Clangd-based language engine in CLion, and started implementing some nice IDE features on top. Sounds ambitious enough, but we have thoroughly enjoyed the experience so far! A very early result of this collaboration was used by Saar in his CppCon 2019 talk on Concepts: We do recommend

It’s been a while since we last dedicated a whole blog entry to IntelliJ Rust. In this post, we’ll take a closer look at how the plugin cooperates with CLion when it comes to debugging your Rust applications. We’ll start by diving right into a debug session to get a grounding in the basics, and then we’ll explore the debugger settings and additional options in detail. Before you begin How to start debugging Switching debuggers and renderers Debugging a Cargo Command configuration More debug features (more…)

Wondering how to add a package to your C++ project? In this guest blog post Javier G. Sogo from JFrog shares how to start with Conan package manager in CLion. Javier G. Sogo @jgsogo Software Engineer at JFrog After several years of C++ development, I moved to Python to learn the best practices and tools. Now I’m back building Conan, the C/C++ package manager. Writing a C++ project from scratch is always a delightful challenge. Starting from a blank page writing your code and creating your functionalities, all the way through to building on top of solid and high-performan

The recording of our webinar Remote Development with CLion is available on the JetBrainsTV YouTube channel. Outline: Initial remote projects support - what’s that? How to configure a remote project in CLion? Remote development – what can I do? What’s going on in CLion under the hood? Resync with Remote Hosts Stay fully remote all the time with ease CLion’s issue tracker has dozens of important and interesting feature suggestions to implement. With limited resources, we are always having to prioritize the features we include with the direction we have in mind for the prod