CodeLite is an open source, free, cross platform IDE specialized in C, C++, PHP and JavaScript programming languages which runs best on all major Platforms.
CodeLite is an open-source, cross platform IDE for the C/C++ programming languages (build and tested on Windows XP SP3, Windows 7, Ubuntu 11.10 / 12.04, and Mac OSX 10.5.8).
CodeLite is distributed under the terms of the GPLv2 license with an exception:
License exception
Plugins developed for CodeLite (other than the ones that comes with the official installer provided by the CodeLite team), are allowed to remain closed sourced and can be distributed under any license.
Main features
From (a page on a former version of) the CodeLite website:
- Generic support for compilers
- Can be easily extended with plugins (several plugins are already included in the installer)
- Built-in GDB support, with the following features included:
- Refactoing (rename symbol / rename locals / move functions and more)
- Subversion plugin (based on the command line tool)
- GIT plugin
- External Tools plugin
- Gizmos plugin - for the creation of: C++ classes, wxWidgets projects, CodeLite plugins
- Makefile based build system
- Project explorer (Workspace view)
- File Explorer
- Imports MSVS workspace/projects and converts them to use a GNU-based makefile
- Active-document outline
- Sophisticated database-based Code Completion mechanism; a default database is supplied which contains symbols for wxWidgets, STL and standard headers
