Attention: Here be dragons (unstable version)

This is the latest (unstable) version of this documentation, which may document features not available in or compatible with released stable versions of Redot.

Checking the stable version of the documentation...

Configuring an IDE

We assume that you have already cloned and compiled Redot.

You can easily develop Redot with any text editor and by invoking scons on the command line, but if you want to work with an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), here are setup instructions for some popular ones:

• Android Studio
• CLion
• Code::Blocks
• KDevelop
• Qt Creator
• JetBrains Rider
• Visual Studio
• Visual Studio Code
• Xcode

It is possible to use other IDEs, but their setup is not documented yet.

If your editor supports the language server protocol, you can use clangd for completion, diagnostics, and more. You can generate a compilation database for use with clangd one of two ways:

# Generate compile_commands.json while compiling
scons compiledb=yes

# Generate compile_commands.json without compiling
scons compiledb=yes compile_commands.json