Developing C on Linux

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I d like to know if there are effective and open source tools to develop C  applications on Linux  Ubuntu   In particular  I have to develop Windows Forms applications   I know about the Mono project  but I ve never used it  What are the best tools  IDE  compiler  etc   to set up a  NET developing environment on Ubuntu   Is software developed on Linux runnable on Windows  Are there different behaviors or incompatibilities

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Mono Develop is what you want  if you have used visual studio you should find it simple enough to get started    If I recall correctly you should be able to install with sudo apt-get install monodevelop

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You can also install it using conda  tested on Ubuntu   conda create --name csharp conda activate csharp conda install -c conda-forge mono

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MonoDevelop  the IDE associated with Mono Project should be enough for C  development on Linux  Now I don t know any good profilers and other tools for C  development on Linux  But then again mind you  that C  is a language more native to windows  You are better developing C  apps for windows than for linux   EDIT  When you download MonoDevelop from the Ubuntu Software Center  it will contain pretty much everything you need to get started right away  Compiler  Runtime Environment  IDE   If you would like more information  see the following links    http   monodevelop com  http   en wikipedia org wiki MonoDevelop http   en wikipedia org wiki Mono  28software 29 http   www mono-project com Development Environments

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Now Microsoft is migrating to open-source - see CoreFX  GitHub

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This is an old question but it has a high view count  so I think some new information should be added  In the mean time a lot has changed  and you can now also use Microsoft s own  NET Core on linux  It s also available in ARM builds  32 and 64 bit

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Mono is a runtime environment that can run  NET applications and that works on both Windows and Linux  It includes a C  compiler   As an IDE  you could use MonoDevelop  and I suppose there s something available for Eclipse  too   Note that WinForms support on Mono is there  but somewhat lacking  Generally  Mono developers seem to prefer different GUI toolkits such as Gtk

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I would suggest using MonoDevelop   It is pretty much explicitly designed for use with Mono  and all set up to develop in C    The simplest way to install it on Ubuntu would be to install the monodevelop package in Ubuntu   link on Mono on ubuntu com   However  if you want to install a more recent version  I am not sure which PPA would be appropriate   However  I would not recommend developing with the WinForms toolkit - I do not expect it to have the same behavior in Windows and Mono  the implementations are pretty different   For an overview of the UI toolkits that work with Mono  you can go to the information page on Mono-project

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