KDevelop is a IDE for C/C++ and Qt supporting cmake, qmake and custom makefiles. It also has plugins for PHP, Python, Rust, Ruby, QML/JS and Go languages.
Questions tagged [kdevelop]
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kdevelop4 and C++ requires cmake
I want to use kdevelop4 for c++ programming but when I try to run the application kdevelop4 wants cmake binary file! How can I solve this problem?

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Add CMAKE variables to project in KDevelop
How can i add CMake variables (e.g. CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH, CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER) to a project in KDevelop5?
Setting the environment variables in Configuration->Environment tab and Project->Configuration->Environment can only set the environment variables…

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Do you have to create 2 separate projects for debug and release in kdevelop?
For some reason it asks me if I want a debug or release kind of project when I create it, so I can't just switch between those 2 in one project. Do need to have 2 separate projects for debug and release?

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How to close the view in Kdevelop?
Kdevelop allows for split views (splitting the editor window horizontally or vertically) like known from Emacs and other editors. There are even shortcuts to create such splits (Ctrl+Shift+T, Ctrl+Shift+L), but I couldn't find any shortcut to close…

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kdevelop 3.5: configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
I try to compile an application with kdevelop 3.5.4 on Ubuntu 10.04, but it fails with the following errors:
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether the C++ compiler works... no
configure: error: in…

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How to compile Qt 5 projects without QtCreator?
I tried to modify KDevelop Qt 4 CMake project to be compile it with Qt 5 and changed the project, but I failed.
I'm still learning Qt and the project's simple.
Commented lines are replaced to make it a Qt 5 project.
main.cpp:
//#include…

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Is kdevelop available in centos 7
I heard that Centos 7 has been released recently. I was not able to install kdevelop in centos 6. Has anyone here installed centos 7 and tried with the installation of kdevelop or does it comes up with unsupported kdelibs version still.

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Show Array's Content in a Range in Qt Debugger
I'm using QT Creator debugger. When I try to debug a large array (i.e. 1000,000 elements), it hangs for trying to retrieve the whole array's values, though I'm trying to see the first few elements only. In KDevelop the debugger shows the first 5…

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Kdevelop execute project with parameters
I am new to Kdevelop and I am trying for 2 hours to run a project based on input parameters in C++ style.
The code is here:
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
std::string s = args[1]
std::cout<

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Use switch external terminal in KDevelop (Mac OS X)
I used homebrew to install KDevelop 4.6 on the Mac OS X Mavericks. Everything is functioning quite normally. Since the internal terminal does not support input, I tried to switch to an external terminal but failed.
Here are the default…

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How to make KDevelop use c style comments?
if I hit Ctrl-D KDevelop will comment out the line where my cursor sits, which is all good. What's not so good is the C++ style comments it chooses // I want it to use /**/. Is there a way to make KDevelop use C style comments?
The reasons I ask…

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How can I make KDevelop break on exceptions?
I am Debugging some BOOST unit tests in KDevelop and it sadly happened that they crash with an exception. How can I make KDevelop automagically break if any exception is raised? In Visual Studio there is a tick box for this one, is it also available…

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Anyone with luck on getting KDevelop work under OSX 10.8.3
I got KDevelop to install through macports with no issues, but it is very unstable and crashes straightaway. I tried getting it through fink, but fink is not able to find the package anymore?
So I am pretty much stuck with no solution. Maybe an…

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Using KDevelop during development of a shared library
I'm trying to use KDevelop as an IDE for development of a C++ shared library. An earlier posts here indicate that I need to edit a CMake makefile for doing that. This is quite painful and very time consuming as it means converting our custom…

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Parallel make build in kdevelop
How do you configure kdevelop to perform builds in parallel?
The command line equivalent might be:
make -j 4
...to run four jobs in parallel.

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