Programming-related Commands

Some programming-related commands:

• compiling
  • g++ -- C++ front-end to GCC.
  • gcc -- "GNU Compiler Collection". Also C compiler.
  • gcj -- Java front-end to GCC.
  • as - the portable GNU assembler

• linking and libraries (see also Library-related_Commands_and_Files)
  • ar - tool for creating, modifying, and extracting from archives
  • ld - the GNU linker
  • ldconfig
  • ldd
  • ld.so
  • pkg-config - tool for outputting linker and compiler flags for a given library

• dealing with object files (see also binutils)
  • nm - lists symbols from object files
  • objcopy - copies and translates object files
  • objdump - display information from object files
  • readelf - displays information about ELF files

• lexical analyzer and parser
  • bisOn (the yacc replacement)
  • flex (the lex replacement)

• debugging
  Main article: debuggers
  
  • ddd
  • gdb
  • lInt
  • valgrind
  • gprof - fight performance problems using profiling

• build tools
  • autoconf - generates configuration scripts
  • automake - automatically generates 'Makefile.in's from 'Makefile.am's
  • ant
  • jam
  • libtool
  • make, makefile, configure script
  • scons

• source code tagging
  • ctags -- for vim- and NEdit-compatible tag files
  • etags -- for emacs-compatible tag files

• revision control
  • GNU Arch
  • Bazaar-NG -- aka "Bazaar 2", aka "bzr"
  • CVS
  • git
  • RCS
  • Subversion

• misc
  • addr2line - converts addresses into file names and line numbers
  • file - find out file type (like "link", "executable" or shared object)
  • strings - finds printable strings in a file