Re: [boost] IDE for developing Boost

Subject: Re: [boost] IDE for developing Boost
From: Nathan Ridge (zeratul976_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-09-06 01:34:07

> I am looking for recommendations for developing Boost, especially code
> in the graph library.
>
> At work, most developers (not for Boost, for some commercial software),
> most developers are using Eclipse. This works quite fine as soon as it
> has properly auto-discovered include paths etc.
>
> But before fiddling around with Eclipse to get all the settings right,
> I'd wanted to to ask for your recommendations. And maybe there are
> already settings available to make it "just work", at least initially.

I use Eclipse to develop code that uses Boost heavily, and I've been
fairly happy with it.

My recommendation is that you use the latest version (Juno), because
it contains a fix for a bug present in previous versions that caused
Eclipse to parse Boost headers inaccurately.

As for settings, I prefer to provide the include paths manually. That
doesn't (necessarily) mean auto-discovering them doesn't work, just
that I haven't taken the time for figure out how to use it.

Regards,
Nate