With the exception of one person that I’ve discussed this with, almost everybody has this misconception, and start to solve my problem by telling me to what to do with my “spare time.” … annoying, huh?

Unfortunately, being bored with worked in my current cultural environment also means not having anything to do at work. Looking at dictionary definitions, I think an interesting description of seen is that on Wikipedia: “an unpleasant, transient affective state in which the individual feels a pervasive lack of interest in and difficulty concentrating on the current activity.” (as defined by C. … Maybe that is not such a great analogy, but you get my point. To use a computer analogy, its like when you look at your computer’s CPU utilization and it says CPU 99% idle, even though you might have tons of applications open and the I/O might be very busing because you are sending files. Boredom in my opinion, is about the mind not having anything challenging to do. In fact, I think boredom has very little to do with time at all. Note: Arguments in run options will be passed as environment variable ARGS to the Makefile, but compiler flags and link libraries will not.I want to write about what I see as a common misconception. To execute a Makefile, a run target need to be specified, just as in the above. Trigger Make-Run on Makefile from tree view

Can trigger one-time unconditional build here.

Can use tab to change input focus and enter to trigger the run button.

Quick access to edit flags and arguments.

This site has a more detailed walkthrough. Macįor Mac users, Xcode is not a prerequisite but you need to at least install the Xcode Command Line Tools. If you have installed other gcc-compilers, just make sure their command names are in you PATH environment variable Ubuntuįor Ubuntu users, gcc and make should have already been installed, though you may need to install g++ in addition. I have tested in the following three platforms: Windowsįor Windows users, I recommend installing the TDM-GCC ( which I am using), then go to the setting page of this package and change the make utility to mingw32-make, after that everything should work.

Execute the current actively opened Makefile.

Compile the current actively opened C/C++ file.

Therefore I decided to reference their packages and make my own. They are really great in certain extent but still cannot fully satisfy my need. Atom has numerous community packages and I have tried some. Previously I wrote a script in NppExec to compile-run my C/C++ programs and execute Makefiles with customizable compile flags and run options. I am a Windows user and just switched to Atom from Notepad++. Compile-run C/C++ source code and execute Makefile in Atom.

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