Tools of the Trade

Tools

Free/Open Source

• gcc - the GNU compiler (collection)

Build related

• make - GNU make - build system
• autools - autoconf, automake, libtool & co - build system

Speeding up compilations

• distcc - distributed (fast!) compilations for any network - distributing compilations to several nodes
• ccache - compiler cache, pre-compiled objects for gcc - speed up repeated compilations by using a configurable dynamic compiler cache

Documentation

• doxygen - source code documenting - automatically create source code documentation from source

Debugging

• BuGLe - OpenGL debugger
• gdb - the GNU project debugger - console debugger
• DDD - Data Display Debugger

Profiling

• gprof - the GNU profiler - profiling

Source Code Management / Revision Control Systems

• CVS - Concurrent Versioning System
  • http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html
  • http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/cvs/cvs_toc.html
  • http://www.wincvs.org/
• SVN
  • http://www.subversion.org
• git (TODO)

fraps-like Output/Video capturing for *nix

• http://live.gnome.org/Istanbul
• http://xvidcap.sourceforge.net/
• http://gizmothunder.blogspot.com/2006/09/fraps-in-linux.html

Other tools (proprietary but freely available)

Debuggers & Profilers

• AMD's Developer Tools (CodeAnalyst, available for free for Win32/Linux )
• Sun Thread Analyzer - for Linux: supports Intel x86 & AMD64 platforms (part of Sun Studio Express)
• Intel VTune (free Win32/Linux versions available for non-commercial use:requires an INTEL CPU!)

IDEs

• TODO: MSVC++ Express 2005