Install CLion IDE on Windows 11

This tutorial will install CLion IDE on the Windows 11 operating system. CLion is a cross-platform IDE from JetBrains for C and C++ development.

Download CLion IDE

To try the tool, we can download and evaluate it for 30-day free trial.

Open a web browser and navigate to the following URL.

• https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/download/

Choose the Windows tab, .exe option in the drop-down and click on the Download button.

Download the .exe installer. File format

CLion<version>.exe

Install CLion

Double-click the CLion .exe installer file to install the tool. You must have administrative privileges to do so.

Click on the Yes button in the UAC prompt. This will launch the CLion Setup wizard screen.

Click on the Next > button.

Choose the Install location for the IDE tool. By default, the tool would be installed under the Program Files folder at

C:\Program Files\JetBrains\CLion <version> folder.

It’s recommended to install on the default location. However, to change the install location, click on the Browse… button and choose the install folder. Make sure you have the write privileges on the location.

Click on the Next > button.

We can create a CLion desktop shortcut icon on this screen.

Update the PATH environment variable to include the bin directory.

Create file associations with the CLion software. The file extensions that we can associate CLion are: .c , .h , C, .cpp, .hpp, .cxx, .hxx. When we do this, we can later directly launch the files with those extensions with the CLion IDE software.

Click on the Next > button to install CLion on the Windows machine. The setup installer will install all the necessary files on the machine.

Once done with the installation, reboot the machine.

That’s it.

We have successfully installed CLion IDE on the Windows 11 machine.

CLion Tutorials

CLion Tutorials on this website can be found at:

• https://www.testingdocs.com/clion-ide-tutorials/