Toolchains
Use this page to set up your tools preferences.
Environment
Item | Description |
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Visual Studio home (for Windows users only) | Click this radio-button to use Microsoft Visual C++ compiler. |
MinGW home | Click this radio-button to use MinGW. If your MinGW home directory has non-standard location (for example, not like a C:\MinGW ), click and select it manually. |
Cygwin home | Click this radio-button to use Cygwin. If your Cygwin home directory has non-standard location (for example, not like a C:\cygwin64 ), click and select it manually. Warning!: In case when Cygwin is selected, CLion utilizes Cygwin instance of GDB instead of its own instance. Make sure that you had installed this package during cygwin64 installation. |
CMake executable
Item | Description |
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Bundled CMake | Click this radio-button to use bundled CMake version |
Custom | Click this radio-button to use CMake version you prefer instead of bundled one. Click to specify its home directory. |
Debugger (Windows)
Item | Description |
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Bundled GDB | Click this radio-button to use GDB version bundled with CLion. |
Custom | Click this radio-button to use your preferred version of GDB instead of bundled with CLion. Click and specify its executable path. |
Debugger (macOS and Linux)
Item | Description |
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Bundled LLDB | Click this radio button to use LLDB bundled with CLion. Note: This option is available for macOS and Linux users only. |
Bundled GDB | Click this radio-button to use GDB version bundled with CLion. |
Custom GDB | Click this radio-button to use your preferred version of GDB instead of bundled with CLion. Click and specify its executable path. |
Verification status
Item | Description |
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Verification status area | Once it is set, CLion verifies the configuration. The following example illustrates successful verification: Example below demonstrates the case when the system failed to find out the specified path to GDB home directory: |
Last modified: 15 December 2017