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...