"Best IDE" for ns3

[Arthur Wulf White]

I read that Eclipse and Netbeans are unofficially supported with ns3. I worked with Eclipse but it I had issues with the auto-complete feature.

Is there any advice on fixing the auto-complete feature? Is any other IDE more well suited to support ns3?

Best,

Arthur

[Nat P]

Hi Arthur,

I'm happy with QtCreator. I'm using it for other projects as well, and after an initial configuration phase (related to indentation) I can have all autocompletion I need.  To compile and run programs, I'm using the Console, with no graphical front-end or similar..

[João Loureiro]

I am very satisfied with the Netbeans. Auto-completion works fine... Also, debugging, conditional breakpoints, call-graphs, and many other functionalities like refactoring, finding usages and so on...  I has saved a LOT of my time on development. Only one extra configuration needed. "build dir = ./build"

I strongly recommend it!

[Arthur Wulf White]

Hi João,

Your suggestion worked perfectly! I can hardly express my gratitude. I know it's a simple thing but I've been suffering with Eclipse in the past few months. It's been a torture. Netbeans appears to work as (or perhaps better than) expected.

Best regards,

Arthur

[Durgesh Kshirsagar]

@João Loureiro

Could you please tell me that where to set this setting in Netbeans(Version?).

Also, when I am trying to run the project, it asks for executable. Can we display prompt to enter file to be executed.

I appreciate your help.

Thank you!