Hello to you readers and a very big THANK YOU to Kdevelop devs; it's intellisense & Ui are beautiful!!!
I'm a new user of kdevelop; a day old user, still working my way to having a complete setup for c++ on kdevelop.
I would like to suggest that, there should be a different kdevelop installer that has programs like mingw, cmake and clazy merged with it. It will be overwhelming for both new users or beginners of Kdevelop when an error keeps appearing only to find out after 30 minutes that a compulsory program hasn't been installed on their pc. If this is not possible, a YouTube video on how to install Kdevelop and all other programs necessary to use Kdevelop would be a much needed alternative

Bundling packages needs to be done by distribution, you should suggest this to your distribution, we don't do packaging.

Are you talking about Windows?

scummos wrote:Are you talking about Windows?

Hi. I'm a noob to C++ and KDevelop, but I'm a true believer and I'm determined to learn C++, and I'm determined to use KDevelop. I've got it set up on my Kubuntu 20.04 machine, working perfectly. But I am having immense difficulty getting it working on my windows machine. I have followed the instructions on the KDE UserBase Wiki which makes it sound like it's supposed to be super easy, but it's not playing nice. I've installed Visual Studio Community with all of the C++ options, and CMake, but KDevelop isn't automatically detecting them so it's complaining that I don't have a compiler and a builder for it to use. I've uninstalled and reinstalled several times, still no change. I start KDevelop using the Windows Start menu, choosing the KDevelop - Microsoft Visual c++ compiler, and a text box pops up saying:

The Microsoft Visual C++ compiler was not found on your system, you might not be able to compile programs.
Press any key to continue . . .

I'm sorry to have to ask such a kindergarten-level question but I can't find anyone or anywhere else to ask for help. Thanks so much in advance.

To be completely honest, I think KDevelop on Windows still has a bit of an enthusiast-level quality these days. We lack UI for proper Compiler Kit configuration, which is kind of needed on Windows. We also don't support any debugger at the moment.

Your specific problem might be related to KDevelop not detecting the specific version of MSVC you installed, but I don't know.

Here's my suggestion: start your tour by using KDevelop on Linux (or, if you really need to use Windows, QtCreator there). When you know your way around a bit, help us improve KDevelop on Windows! Don't be afraid, for me KDevelop was also the first C++ project I worked on It's a bit difficult at first, but in turn helps you learn super quickly.