Which IDE for C++ software can I use for targeting Windows, Linux and OSX?

I was reading today question on IDEs fo C++, and there are very good ones like Netbeans.

My question is 开发者_如何学运维about creating a software in C++ on Windows Environment, but let users install and run my software also on Linux and OSX.

Does netbeans has a compiler to do the job, or is there any good IDE which has a compiler for targeting my c++ code to these other environments?

thank you

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QtCreator. It's awesome, slick and everything.

While it is not as feature rich as some competitors, it does many things just right that others don't.

I would say it is the one truly cross-platform IDE that is competitive to single-platform solutions. And it comes with tight integration of a very powerful and clean cross-platform toolkit. Something that you need for most cross-platform applications by itself.

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I use Eclipse CDT and have had some degree of success. But I'm a Java programmer, so it's what I'm used to. It's worth checking out, and the extensions are quite cool.

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Many people like Code::Blocks and it is cross-platform, with integrated debugging, code completion, etc. Qt Creator is also good and at least still very minimalistic.

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Without a doubt VisualStudio with gnu make.

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I've found Visual Studio to have the best IDE for C++. In addition, it's debugger and the way it handles multi-threaded applications is excellent.

And you can tweak the properties for your project to use different compilers and compiler flags of your choice, so it can build to any target.

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You're talking about cross-compiling as GMan said, that's a compiler job, not IDE's and itu's kind of hard to make C++ software that runs well on Linux/Windows/MacOSX, C++ isn't a cross plataform language beacuse of its ABI, so you should try to use C++ standart code. If you're making a consloe application there's no much problem just be care not to use system interface, but if you're planning to do some kind of graphics app then C++ it not the better choice for your purpose. Try some design that split the view from the controller/model of the app.

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You can use QtCreator or NetBeans. First on C++ secord on Java. Both use MinGW g++.

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Just a thought: you don't need to use a single IDE for all platforms. It is very common, for example, to use Visual Studio on Windows and Xcode on Mac OS X for cross-platform projects. I'm not familiar with Linux IDEs thought so couldn't recommend anything there.

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Write makefiles for each OS? Simple enough seems to me.

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Concerning cross plattform development it doesn't make a difference which IDE you use. Just make sure you use a cross platform (and possibly IDE independent) build system like SCons or cmake.