How do I set up CLion to compile and run

Question

I just downloaded CLion from https   www jetbrains com  because I just love the rest of their products  However  I m having problems configuring it  I m not able to compile and run my application  a simple  quot hello world quot     When I try to run the application  it refers me to  quot Edit configuration quot   so I added a new application and now I have this problem   I cannot specify the  quot target quot   the only thing I can do is set  quot All targets quot   I cannot specify the  quot configuration quot   all tutorials I found have Debug or Run here   Executable  Hmm  Should the path to GCC be here   C  MinGW bin gcc exe   The rest of the configuration looks optional  My CMakeList txt looks like  cmake minimum required VERSION 3 3  project test   set CMAKE CXX FLAGS  quot   CMAKE CXX FLAGS  -std c  11 quot    set SOURCE FILES test c test h  add executable test   SOURCE FILES    I tried to run this with  quot All targets quot   I also tried to set the executable  I tried everything  but I m not able to make it work  Can anyone advise

User · Answer

I met some problems in Clion and finally  I solved them  Here is some experience    Download and install MinGW g   and gcc package should be installed by default  Use the MinGW installation manager to install mingw32-libz and mingw32-make  You can open MinGW installation manager through C  MinGW libexec mingw-get exe This step is the most important step  If Clion cannot find make  C compiler and C   compiler  recheck the MinGW installation manager to make every necessary package is installed  In Clion  open File- Settings- Build Execution Deployment- Toolchains  Set MinGW home as your local MinGW file  Start your  Hello World

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I ran into the same issue with CLion 1 2 1  at the time of writing this answer  after updating Windows 10  It was working fine before I had updated my OS  My OS is installed in C   drive and CLion 1 2 1 and Cygwin  64-bit  are installed in D   drive    The issue seems to be with CMake  I am using Cygwin  Below is the short answer with steps I used to fix the issue   SHORT ANSWER  should be similar for MinGW too but I haven t tried it     Install Cygwin with GCC  G    GDB and CMake  the required versions  Add full path to Cygwin  bin  directory to Windows Environment variables Restart CLion and check  Settings  -   Build  Execution  Deployment  to make sure CLion has picked up the right versions of Cygwin  make and gdb Check the project configuration   Run  -   Edit configuration   to make sure your project name appears there and you can select options in  Target    Configuration  and  Executable  fields  Build and then Run Enjoy   LONG ANSWER   Below are the detailed steps that solved this issue for me    Uninstall delete the previous version of Cygwin  MinGW in your case  Make sure that CLion is up-to-date Run Cygwin setup  x64 for my 64-bit OS  Install at least the following packages for Cygwin   gcc g   make Cmake gdb  Make sure you are installing the correct versions of the above packages that CLion requires  You can find the required version numbers at CLion s Quick Start  section  I cannot post more than 2 links until I have more reputation points   Next  you need to add Cygwin  or MinGW  to your Windows Environment Variable called  Path   You can Google how to find environment variables for your version of Windows    On Win 10  right-click on  This PC  and select Properties -  Advanced system settings -  Environment variables    -  under  System Variables  -  find  Path  -  click  Edit     Add the  bin  folder to the Path variable  For Cygwin  I added  D  cygwin64 bin Start CLion and go to  Settings  either from the  Welcome Screen  or from File -  Settings Select  Build  Execution  Deployment  and then click on  Toolchains  Your  Environment  should show the correct path to your Cygwin installation directory  or MinGW  For  CMake executable   select  Use bundled CMake x x x    3 3 2 in my case at the time of writing this answer   Debugger  shown to me says  Cygwin GDB GNU gdb  GDB  7 8    too many gdb s in that line  -   Below that it should show a checkmark for all the categories and should also show the correct path to  make    C compiler  and  C   compiler    See screenshot  Check all paths to the compiler  make and gdb   Now go to  Run  -   Edit configuration   You should see your project name in the left-side panel and the configurations on the right side   See screenshot  Check the configuration to run the project   There should be no errors in the console window  You will see that the  Run  -   Build  option is now active Build your project and then run the project  You should see the output in the terminal window   Hope this helps  Good luck and enjoy CLion

User · Answer

You can also use Microsoft Visual Studio compiler instead of Cygwin or MinGW in Windows environment as the compiler for CLion   Just go to find Actions in Help and type  Registry  without   and enable CLion enable msvc Now configure toolchain with Microsoft Visual Studio Compiler   You need to download it if not already downloaded   follow this link for more details  https   www jetbrains com help clion quick-tutorial-on-configuring-clion-on-windows html

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