In honour of the Amiga's birthday, I'm starting something I always wanted to do: an Amiga game in C. It's been decades since I used C in any meaningful way, and I never used it on the Amiga. Should be fun...

Laptop number three, installed without issue.

For fun, tried to make a simple c++ project (literally hello world) using CLion, and it doesn't compile. No idea why. Googling the error gives some random config advice that doesn't apply.

Like literally, I installed clang (and clang-tools) with apt. Installed CLion. Everything looks fine. Create a new c++ project. Hit build. Error.

I know I could get stuff working fine at command line, but I'd rather not.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/05/clion-is-now-free-for-non-commercial-use/

You might've seen mentions of #CLion being free (for non-commercial use), but if you're like me it helps to know that this is #Jetbrain's their C/C++/Rust IDE.

..so if you want to try writing one of these languages, the above post might be worth checking out.

#Webstorm also appears to be free, which is their #Javascript / #Typescript IDE https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/

Hey, look at that. It only took 2 hours. I have successfully used a 3rd party C++ library (PoDoFo) and extracted some information from a PDF file.

#CLion seems to have made it possible. It is using CMake and Ninja underneath. But I didn't have to abandon the idea of writing C++ again :)

No, I am not a C++ programmer

In a great piece of news, JetBrains has made #CLion free for non-commercial use. I wanted to give c++ a try a few months back and eventually gave up after trying to get the package management and build system to work.

Yes, I was trying to get it working in a weekend and didn’t want to use Qt and a few other lazy stuff.

Anyway, the point is, I am going to give it another try now with CLion (same lazy effort) and see if I can get going with something.

CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

https://lemm.ee/post/63309519

CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
#Clang #CLion #News #Licensing #Noncommercial

https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/05/clion-is-now-free-for-non-commercial-use/

CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/05/clion-is-now-free-for-non-commercial-use/

CLion 2025.1 Arrives With Support for Out-of-Project Files in CLion Nova, Qt Renderers, the ST-LINK Debug Server, and West Build Options
#Clang #CLion #News #Releases #Bazel #Clionnova #Embedded #Opencv #Qt #Release #Stm32 #Zephyrwest

https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/04/clion-2025-1-release/