I spent the last few days setting up my first Arch Linux build using xfce4. Except for a few things, everything is working well.

I use Netbeans as my IDE to develop C++ apps. Compiling my cmake projects works as expected. I can run the executable from command line but not from Netbeans. Looking at the file via the xfce4 file manager, it displays as a "shared library" and doesn't use the executable icon.

As a test, I generated a simple "hello world" project and compiled it. This doesn't use cmake. The executable still displays as a "shared library" but netbeans will run it and I can place break points.

At first, it wasn't generating the executable until I added my user to a few more groups. Compiling the code in root produces the same result.

I'm not sure what to make of this.

With Arch Linux, you pretty much get the latest software. The GCC version is 7.2.1 and the new thing is compiling "executable shared libraries". The GNU/Linux people decided that this should be the default option. This is why Netbeans doesn't know it's an executable and wont display as the executable to use after a CMake build.

At this point I don't know what to do. I'm looking into forcing the build to be an ELF Executable and not a ELF Shared Library.

Just needed to add "-no-pie" to the CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS.

Sorry to necro this post, but I believe it is SOMEWHAT pertaining to this issue and I can't find much else about it.

I just started using the Netbeans and I believe I've had a similar issue where NetBeans won't allow me to add my executable to the 'Run' config because it is not detected as an executable. I have found a workaround (consisting partially of the -no-pie resolve posted above) that allows you to keep building as PIE, but still allows you to add the executable to the Run command (not sure if this will help in this situation, but I'm trying anyway) and I'm really not sure where I should post and this was one the only comprehensible posts I found about this issue.

The steps are as follows (part of my Twitter post):

1. Add -no-pie to your g++/make/cmake build command/config for the 1st build.
2. Build once.
3. Add the newly built exe to the NB Run config.
4. Remove -no-pie from your command/config.
5. Clean and rebuild.

The Run command/button should now work even as PIE and I hope it helps in other similar situations.

Hope this helps someone.