Re: question about best IDEs for Windows/Cygwin-x86, GCC, EPICS inEPICS community

[Guy Jennings <jennings@anl.gov>]

I'd agree that qt creator is preferable to eclipse for C++ work...

On Aug 24, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Shen, Guobao wrote:

> Or you can try qt-creator. It works pretty nice for a C/C++ project,
> but might not work well for other language like python or java.
> 
> Guobao
> 
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> From: tech-talk-bounces@aps.anl.gov on behalf of Claude Saunders
> Sent: Wed 8/24/2011 4:01 PM
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> Subject: Re: question about best IDEs for Windows/Cygwin-x86, GCC, EPICS inEPICS community
> 
> I've used the Eclipse C/C++ IDE for this in the past. The key is to
> configure it right for an EPICS build. It's been a while, but as I
> recall this requires configuring the Eclipse build step to invoke gmake
> on the top-level makefile. The build step in Eclipse is highly
> configurable and flexible, and takes a bit of work to get a handle on it.
> 
> Since Eclipse C/C++ "projects" can only build based on one pre-specified
> Makefile, you can't selectively build in sub-directories. But, in
> general, the EPICS Makefiles behave well when initiating a build at the
> highest level. It's just a bit slower because it has to traverse all the
> files and dependencies, even if you're repeatedly building just one file
> in a subdir.
> 
> Either this, or you make a separate Eclipse "project" for different
> subdirs. Depends.
> 
> And the above mechanism may not pick up the association between compiler
> errors and line numbers automatically. But you can turn on line-number
> display in the Eclipse editors, and find the lines manually...
> 
> Hope this helps,
>        Claude
> 
> On 08/24/2011 12:40 PM, Jay Steele wrote:
> >
> > Hi EPICS folks,
> >
> >      I've been doing some EPICS software development with
> > Windows/Cygwin-x86 for a couple of months now, and am getting tired of
> > simple text editors and running make from the cygwin command shell.
> > Ideally, would like something like Visual C++ 2008 that, for example,
> > shows function prototypes when you hover the cursor over some text,
> > includes a debugger, and shows the relevant code line after clicking
> > on a compiler error statement. Does anybody have recommendations for
> > an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that works well with
> > EPICS, GCC, and cygwin? I see some different options on the web (Qt
> > Designer, Eclipse, etc) but haven't tried them out yet.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jay Steele
> >
> > Xradia Corporation
> >
> >
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