Getting started with netbeans
Netbeans is a very powerful IDE. These pages are intended to get you started. The help-facility of netbeans is comprehensive and will give you further information.Because the version 6.1 used by default in the School does not have the C/C++-extension installed, we need to use the newer version. This is reachable via the command-line - simply type /bham/common/java/packages/netbeans-6.5/bin/netbeans & at a command-line prompt.
The first step is to set the additional compiler flags which ensure
that all warnings are produced and are treated as errors. For this,
select Tools-> Options , and in the window which appears,
the option C/C++ . Now enter in the text box marked
Make Options the text "-Wall -Werror" (including the
quotes).
This window should now look like
To create a new project, open
File-> New Project . Select "C/C+" as the category, and
"C/C++ Application" as the Projects.
After these steps you should get a screen that looks like
In the next step you will be
asked for a name of the project. Choose whatever suits you.
You create a new source file with the main-fucntion already provided
by right-clicking on the "Source Files"-item of the project and
selecting New-> Main C File . In the resulting screen
choose a suitable name, normally the name of the project.
You can now start entering your source code. The program for the
Hello-World-example looks like this:
To compile the program, select Run-> Build Main Project . All compiler errors are shown in a separate window at the bottom.
To run the program, open Run-> Run Main Project. A separate window will appear, which contains the input and output of the program. The debugger is started and used in the same way as for Java-programs.