Feature List
From Code::Blocks
Highlights
- Open Source! GPLv3, no hidden costs.
 - Cross-platform. Runs on Linux, Mac, Windows (uses wxWidgets).
 - Written in C++. No interpreted languages or proprietary libs needed.
 - Extensible through plugins
 
Compiler
- Multiple compiler support:
- GNU GCC (incl. GFortran) (Linux)
 - MinGW GCC (incl. GFortran) (Win32)
 - MSP430 GCC (Win32)
 - TriCore GCC (Win32, Linux)
 - PowerPC GCC (Win32, Linux)
 - Apple GCC (Xcode) (Mac OS X)
 - Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003 (Win32)
 - Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 (Win32)
 - Borland's C++ Compiler 5.5 (Win32)
 - DigitalMars C/C++ (Win32)
 - Open Watcom (Win32)
 - Intel C++ compiler (Win32)
 - Small Device C Compiler (SDCC)
 - Cygwin (Win32)
 - GNU GCC Objective-C
 - Digital Mars D
 - GDC D Compiler
 - LLVM D Compiler
 
 - Very fast custom build system (no makefiles needed)
 - Support for parallel builds (utilizing your CPU's extra cores)
 - Multi-target projects
 - Workspaces to combine multiple projects
 - Inter-project dependencies inside workspace
 - Imports MSVC projects and workspaces (NOTE: assembly code not supported yet)
 - Imports Dev-C++ projects
 
Debugger
- Interfaces GNU GDB
 - Also supports MS CDB (not fully featured)
 - Full breakpoints support:
- Code breakpoints
 - Data breakpoints (read, write and read/write)
 - Breakpoint conditions (break only when an expression is true)
 - Breakpoint ignore counts (break only after certain number of hits)
 
 - Display local function symbols and arguments
 - User-defined watches (support for watching user-defined types through scripting)
 - Call stack
 - Disassembly
 - Custom memory dump
 - Switch between threads
 - View CPU registers
 
Interface
- Syntax highlighting, customizable and extensible
 - Code folding for C++, Fortran, Python, XML, and multiple other languages
 - Tabbed interface
 - Code completion
 - Class Browser
 - Smart indent
 - One-key swap between .h and .c/.cpp files
 - Custom keyboard shortcuts
 - Open files list for quick switching between files (optional)
 - External customizable "Tools"
 - To-do list management with different users
 
Plugins
- Fully customizable through plugins
 - Automatically format source code to the desired style
 - Spell-check on strings and comments (svn only)
 - Rapid application development tool for wxWidgets based GUIs
 - Nassi–Shneiderman diagramming
 - Integrated hex editor
 - And much more...