Beginners guide for setting up emacs with gcc/gdb?

I looked around the GNU emacs material and didn't find anything helpful.

Does anyone know of a good tutorial for setting up emacs, to basically turn it into an IDE? I'm looking for interfacing with gcc/gdb/make, etc...

From stackoverflow

• Good Article

  Look at CScope too... you just have to add two lines to your .emacs to be able to navigate through definitions and references

• Yuval, you're probably being misled by looking for something about IDEs. All that stuff is automagically built into EMACS except for the CScope-like searching stuff.

  • M-x compile runs make by default, although I reset it to run Ant in java mode.
  • M-x gdb runs gdb
  • `C=x `` (Ctrl-X backquote) goes to the next compile error

  and so on.

  Go dig about in the EMACS Wiki. Lots of good stuff. The Programming Category is where you should look.

• Like other answers mentioned, M-x compile, M-x gdb will get you going. While debugging, I'd also suggest gdb-many-windows-mode, which makes Emacs look a bit closer to IDE when debugging.

  Besides that and to get closer to "IDE-like features", you can look at:

  • CEDET http://cedet.sourceforge.net/ for code completion and project support. Excellent tutorial at http://xtalk.msk.su/~ott/en/writings/emacs-devenv/EmacsCedet.html .
  • If you don't mind using non-free software, Xrefactory (http://www.xref.sk/xrefactory/main.html) is probably the best (well, the only) refactoring tool. The C version is free, the C++ is not.
  Alex Ott : I just opened question to post link to article about Cedet ;-)

  Alex Ott : for work with gdb, you can use also gdb-ui from standard distribution

  Richard Corden : Being using emacs+gdb for 8+ years now - never knew about "gdb-many-windows-mode"!!! It's fantastic!

• If you're working with version control system, you can find useful information in another my article about work with version control systems from emacs

• Even though not directly related to C/C++ i find that using a good color scheme is important. Try:

  M-x color-theme-select
  

  and you can browse around a lot of different setups if you do not want to create your own.