Software or Resource Version Required 8. You can add functionality by installing plugin modules, or remove functionality by uninstalling plugin modules. See the NetBeans IDE online help for more information about plugins. If you have not yet installed NetBeans IDE 8. If you have NetBeans IDE 8. You should skip to the section. If you have NetBeans IDE 8. See the following instructions for the platform of your development system. If you install both Cygwin and MinGW, be careful to keep their installation locations completely separate and do not mix tools from Cygwin and MinGW in one tool collection in the IDE. If you want to use Qt with Windows, you must use MinGW. See the article for instructions for installing MinGW and Qt software. Software or Resource Version Tested Description cygwin1. See to verify that the tools are installed correctly for the NetBeans IDE. Note: The bitness of Windows OS, Java, and NetBeans IDE installed on your machine must match. Accept the defaults until you reach the Select Your Internet Connection page. Select the option on this page that is best for you. Click the + next to Devel to expand the development tools category. You may want to resize the window so you can see more of it at one time. Directory names must be separated with a semicolon. MinGW Compilers and Tools NetBeans IDE 8. Versions tested and installation instructions are shown below. If you want to use Qt with Windows, see the article for instructions for installing MinGW and Qt software. Software or Resource Version Tested Description gcc 4. You must add the paths to the the binaries for MinGW and MSYS tools to your PATH. Use semi-colons between the paths and do not use any spaces. Be careful not to remove anything already on your PATH or your computer might not work correctly. See to verify that the tools were installed correctly for the NetBeans IDE. Oracle Solaris On Oracle Solaris platforms, you can use GNU tools or Oracle Solaris Studio tools. The Oracle Solaris Studio software is a suite of developer tools that are free to download. The Oracle Solaris Studio compilers are optimized for Oracle Sun hardware, and make it easier to produce performance tuned Oracle Solaris binaries. Software or Resource Version Tested Description cc 5. To download and install the Oracle Solaris Studio 12. You must have write permission for this directory. To install the Oracle Solaris Studio 12. Make sure that this location is in your PATH before starting NetBeans IDE. You can download gdb from. Linux On Linux platforms, you can use GNU tools or Oracle Solaris Studio tools. NetBeans IDE has been tested with the following compilers and tools: Software or Resource Version Tested Description cc 5. To download and install the Oracle Solaris Studio 12. You must have write permission for this directory. If you are using Ubuntu, download the tarfile installation into the directory where you want to install it because the packages are for Oracle Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and SuSE Linux Enterprise System. Note also that Ubuntu is not an officially supported platform for Oracle Solaris Studio IDE, but the compilers have been tested for use in NetBeans IDE and been found to work. To download and install the GNU debugger in Oracle Linux or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, type: yum install gdb To download and install the GNU debugger in Ubuntu, type: sudo apt-get install gdb OS X NetBeans IDE has been tested with the following compilers and tools: Software or Resource Version Tested Description gcc 4. Use older versions of Xcode. To verify that the installation is correct, start NetBeans IDE, build a sample project, and run it in the gdb debugger. This method is available on Windows platforms, but might not be available on the Oracle Solaris 11 platform and some Linux platforms. Build a Sample Project to Test the Tools On all platforms, you can build a sample project to test the compiler installation, and run it in the debugger to test the gdb installation. If your compilers and make utility are installed correctly and the path to them is set, build output is displayed in the Output window and the project builds successfully. If the gdb debugger is installed correctly and the path to it is set, gdb starts up, the Debugger tabs are displayed, and the Welcome application runs and stops at the breakpoint. If the Base Directory path is incorrect, you may have made a mistake when setting your path environment variable. Refer back to the instructions for setting the path in the section for your platform in this document, and correct the path if necessary. This will cause the IDE to rescan your environment to look for tools and the tool collection should be found if the path environment variable is correct. This is usually the bin directory. The IDE should be able to determine the family of the tools and update the other fields in the dialog box appropriately. If not, an error is displayed. The new collection should be displayed in the list. If you cannot solve the problem, ask for help at the.