Free Compilers

• The compilers, IDEs, editors and tools used in the lecture will be available via a public license or at least free for students/community.
  Many free compilers base on the gnu compiler from the GNU-Project which work for a large range of operating systems and processor types.
  The same holds for the excellent LLVM compilers with clang++.
• The compilers should support at least C++-11 and OpenMP 3.1.

Compilers with Windows

• Code::Blocks (17.12), is an IDE including gnu compilers for  Windows (and LINUX).  OpenMP ist not supported.
  Download the IDE (choose codeblocks-17.12mingw-setup.exe) and the manual.
• We use Doxygen as documentation tool (Download Version 1.8.15 oder newer).
  See hint on  syntax of Doxygen itself (commands, by topic), Wikipedia, Coding conventions.
• Installation on your PC with  Windows [Jan 2019]:
1. First install doxygen and afterwards, you might install code::blocks (this ensures that code::blocks will find the executables for doxygen automatiocally).
2. (optional) installation of cppcheck .
3. Last: install codeblocks.
• Without an IDE the editor notepad++ is recommended.

• Also available  (not recommanded fir the lecture):
• Microsoft Visual Studio C++ Community 2017 (free Download for students) or Visual Studio Code. The C++ Doku is really good.
• Eclipse CDT bases on GNU (Windows and Linux). Easy to install but overwhelming for novices.
• NetBeans bases on GNU (Windows and Linux).  More compicated installation with Windows. Besides that a good and simple IDE.
• Intel Compiler (+IDE)  is free for Students.

Compilers with Linux

• All compilers are available with LiNUX. The same holds for IDEs as IDEs Code::Blocks, Eclipse und NetBeans etc.
• We use the following compilers with Linux:
• g++           gnu (>= 5.4)
• clang++    LLVM (>=3.8)
• pgc++       PGI (free community edition 18.10)
  
• icpc           Intel (lecturer version 19.0)
  
• The documentation tool doxygen is used, see its syntax (commands, by topic), Wikipedia, Coding conventions.
• Compilation, linking etc. is done by the tool make which require a script Makefile (default name), see tutorials (1, 2, 3)
• Editors with syntax highlighting: geany, gedit, kile,  vim, notepad++, nano, ...
  
• User report for LINUX beginners and beginners guide.

Compilers with Mac

• An old, unstable Code::Blocks Version 13.12 is availabe for Mac.This development stalls.
• You can use LLVM, Intel and Gnu compilers with Mac (which bases on Unix, e.g., it is very close to Linux at the command line)