Development Howto

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This will hopefully turn into a more thorough 'Development Howto' as time progresses. For now this is just a place to collect useful information on development.

Contents 1 Tools 2 IDEs/Editors 3 Source Version Control 4 Misc. Development tools 5 Code Snippets 6 Kernel Development

[edit] Tools

• gcc
• make
• gdb
• objdump
• javac and java

[edit] IDEs/Editors

• Eclipse
• vim
• kate
• kdevelop
• Qt Designer
• fte
• emacs
• SlickEdit

[edit] Source Version Control

• cvs
• svn
• svk
• git
• darcs
• svn-git

[edit] Misc. Development tools

• DevTodo - Console based TODO list manager

[edit] Code Snippets

• Obtaining your own IP address
• Userspace FIB Lookup
• Obtaining a stack trace in C upon SIGSEGV (Works for C++ too)
• colorstderr - illustrates the use of fork(2), pipe(2), dup2(3), execve(2), perror(3) and a few other obscure function calls. It also happens to be a remotely usefull application.

[edit] Kernel Development

• Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition: Official online version of the O'Reilly book by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman.
• The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
• Linux Loadable Kernel Module HOWTO