1 Anjuta Version 2.0.0 Alpha Release
3 Copyright (C) 2000-2005 Naba Kumar
4 Home site => http://anjuta.org/
9 Anjuta DevStudio is a versatile Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
10 on GNOME Desktop Environment and features a number of advanced
11 programming facilities. These include project management, application and
12 class wizards, an on-board interactive debugger, powerful source editor,
13 syntax highlighting, intellisense autocompletions, symbol navigation,
14 version controls, integrated GUI designing and other tools.
16 Anjuta is an effort to marry the flexibility and power of text-based
17 command-line tools with the ease-of-use of the GNOME graphical user
18 interface. We thrive to make it very usable by eleminating developers
19 burden with mudane programming tasks.
21 Anjuta 2.x is the next generation Anjuta development studio with extensible
22 plugin architecture. The new architecture allows writing independent
23 plugins that could interact with existing plugins. Most of the older
24 features have been already ported to the new architecture and are working.
26 The new architecture has:
28 * Complex docking shell that allows arbitrary docking of IDE widgets.
29 * Dynamic plugin activation and deactivation.
30 * Extensible architecture.
31 * Plugins can interact with other plugins through interface.
32 * Plugins can install dynamic UIs (menus/toolbars), including installing
33 context menus in other plugins.
35 At present, Anjuta is only a beta release and lots of work needs to be done to
36 improve it. In the future, Anjuta is going to be much more capable and stable!
37 Extensive debugging has not yet been performed, so at the moment it will
38 undoubtedly have lots of bugs. It would be great if you use it and report any
39 problems to us. That way, you will be helping to improve the software as well
40 as helping the Open Source community. Please read the file COPYRIGHT for
43 Any sort of suggestions or patches for Anjuta are also most welcome.
45 Presently available features in Anjuta:
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48 1. Fully customizable integrated editor.
49 o Automatic syntax highlighting.
50 o Automatic code formatting.
51 o Code folding/hiding.
52 o Line numbers/markers display.
54 o Code autocompletion.
55 o Calltips for Linux/GNOME function prototypes.
56 o Automatic indentation and indentation guides.
59 2. Each file opened can be operated in either paged mode
62 3. Highly interactive source level debugger (built over gdb).
63 o Interactive execution.
64 o Breakpoints/watches/signal/stack manipulation.
65 o Local Variables view.
69 4. Inbuilt application wizards to create terminal/GTK/GNOME
70 applications on-the-fly.
72 5. Dynamic Tags browsing.
73 o Function definition, structure, classes etc.
74 o Full tags management for project.
78 6. Full project and build files management.
80 6. Bookmark management.
82 7. Basic windows are attachable and detachable.
84 9. Support for other languages
85 o Java, Perl, Pascal ... etc. (only file mode, no project
88 10. Interactive messaging system.
90 11. GNOME2 platform compliant.
92 Contact Email addresses for Anjuta:
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95 Anjuta Home site: http://anjuta.org.
96 Anjuta Project site: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/anjuta
98 For general discussions and queries use the discussion forums (two forums)
99 at the project site. Please report bugs at the projects bug tracking system
100 or the mailing lists at the project site. News of Anjuta is also available
103 To subscribe to one or more of the mailing lists, visit
104 [ http://www.sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=14222 ].
105 or send a mail at <listname>-request@lists.sourceforge.net with a subject
106 just "subscribe". Where, <listname> is anjuta-list or anjuta-devel.
109 o anjuta-list@lists.anjuta.sourceforge.net
110 For general discussion.
112 o anjuta-devel@lists.anjuta.sourceforge.net
113 For development discussion.
115 o anjuta-announce@lists.anjuta.sourceforge.net
116 For announcements of new releases.
122 1) Installation from tarball:
123 * GTK libs (2.0 or later)
124 * GNOME libs (2.0 or later)
125 * gnome-xml (aka libxml1) (1.4.0 or later)
130 * gnome-build (the latest release)
131 * gdl (the latest release)
134 * devhelp (0.13 or later): for integrated API help
135 * glade3 (3.1.5 or later): for integrated UI designing
136 * libsvn: (www.subversion.org) to build subversion plugin
137 * graphviz: for class hierarchy view and profiler.
139 2) Installation from repository:
140 * All the requirements for tarball
141 * GNU gettext 0.10.x (or later)
142 * Automake 1.4 (or later)
143 * Autoconf 2.13 (or later)
146 * X-Windows, any window manager should do as long as the gnome libs
150 * yelp to browse docs
156 * For cvs plugin: cvs
161 Note:- The package as an example is taken as anjuta-1.0.tar.gz
162 and '#' is the shell prompt. You must be logged in as root to
166 2) copy it to your home dir.
167 3) tar xfzv anjuta-<version>.tar.gz
168 4) Change dir: # cd anjuta-<version>
169 5) Type: # ./configure
171 7) Type: # make install
173 That's all. If everything went smoothly, congratulations. If not,
174 then please check that you have the latest libgnome and libgnomeui
175 installed. Get them if you don't have and repeat the above steps.
180 * Calltips flicker when the cursor touches them if you have your window
181 manager set to follow-mouse-cursor for focus. Change it to focus-follow
182 mouse click to fix it.
187 To run Anjuta, choose Applications->Programming->Anjuta IDE from the GNOME
188 Main Menu, or type: # anjuta
190 If you get the shell error 'Command not found', then make sure your PATH
191 variable contains the executable path of Anjuta binary (by default:
192 /usr/local/bin). Usually, the PATH variable is set in the file
193 /etc/profile. Check it out.
195 Usage: anjuta [--no-splash | -s] [ files ...] [ project ]
197 If you do not want to see the Anjuta splash screen / logo, run Anjuta with
198 the command-line option "--no-splash". See the User Manual for further