Rational Team Concert is known for providing an excellent software development platform for  Java and .NET applications (with support for Microsoft Visual Studio) but it can also work with a myriad of other programming languages through its flexible and extensible architecture. One of the languages that is often asked about is C/C++ and how Rational Team Concert supports using it. Topics of interest include:

• How do I set up Rational Team Concert to compile and debug C/C++?
• Is it possible to integrate with Rational Team Concert using C/C++?
• How do I manage the source code?
• What about automated builds, how do I use the Build System Tookit to compile C/C++ and provide feedback to the build engine?
• What about automated static code analysis?
• … and automated testing?

In order to answer these questions, I wrote a series of blog posts on my personal blog, “Boris’s Blog”, about C/C++ development on Rational Team Concert.  If you or your organization are doing (or plan to do) C/C++ development I invite you to follow along in the first four articles where I cover the following topics:

• OSLC Development using C/C++ and Rational Team Concert (Part 1)
  • Getting Started with C/C++ Development Tooling (CDT) and MinGW
  • Setting up the IDE
  • Hello world C/C++ Project
• Intro to Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC)
• OSLC Development using C/C++ and Rational Team Concert (Part 2)
  • Using libxml and libcurl to call RTC services
  • C/C++ OSLC Code sample
• Automated builds using C/C++ and Rational Team Concert
  • Creating a Makefile for C/C++
  • Setting up an automated build for our OSLC code using the Build System Toolkit

Future posts that I write here on the Jazz Team Blog will expand on these topics and include more information on development, building and testing in C/C++ and Rational Team Concert and Jazz in general.

Boris Kuschel
Jazz Jumpstart Team