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.
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++ and the tab Project Options. 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. Make sure you select C as the language for the main file. The window should now look like
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.