Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Ralph Lange <[email protected]> · Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:06:42 -0400

 On 15-Oct-2010 11:52, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:

Ralph Lange wrote:

 A small recommendation at this point:
I have been using Qt Creator as my IDE for all EPICS Base related
C/C++ development for half a year now, and I am increasingly excited
about using it for development and debugging:

I have very good experience with "NetBeans IDE" for C/C++ and Soft IOC
Debugging

However, I am not sure about the future of Netbeans as ORACLE may drop
it?

In any case, I was starting to head toward ECLIPSE but I will give "Qt
Creator" a try as well. :)

My apologies...

I was off-topic, and obviously driven by the religious enthusiasm of
that second category, which you enter after the conversion from one
"greatest tool" to an even greater one. ;-)
So, let me rephrase my answer to Mark's suggestion of running the IOC
directly under gdb (which triggered me in the first place):
I would not suggest running an IOC directly under command line gdb
unless you are really familiar with its methods and commands. Running
command line gdb without a good understanding of what you're doing can
be *very* frustrating. Been there.
Running the IOC in a graphical debugger, on the other hand, can be a
very nice and efficient experience.

In addition to the wide-spread Netbeans and Eclipse IDEs, I recently
used Qt Creator a lot, which - while having similar functionality and
user experience - is very small, lightweight, and starts up really fast.
Sounds much better, doesn't it?!
~Ralph

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System