Code::Blocks programmers required for Catalina - apply within!
RossH
Posts: 5,519
@All,
Some of you may have seen that the latest version of Catalina includes Code::Blocks integration, providing a graphical development environment for C programs (similar to the various SPIN tools, AVR Workbench or Visual Studio) - see here for more information on Code::Blocks.
My intention is to make it as easy to use Catalina (and now the BlackCat source level debugger) as it is to use SPIN - and both Parallax's original and Brad's alternative SPIN tools set a very high standard!
However, this will take a little bit of Code::Blocks development. Catalina currently uses the "generic" Code::Blocks compiler plugin. While this is fully functional, it does mean that installing and using Code::Blocks with Catalina a little more difficult than it needs to be (and not well suited for newcomers who may already be struggling with both the Propeller and the C language).
Ideally, a Catalina-specific Code::Blocks plugin should be developed instead. I had intended to do this myself, but I am finding I already have too much to do and too little time. But this work is quite self-contained - you don't even need much Catalina experience to tackle it - all the Code::Blocks plugin does is allow users a better way of specifying the various Catalina command line options (and maybe do some simple checking to ensure that they are internally consistent). And in this respect, Catalina is much simpler than most other compilers (try typing 'gcc -v --help' some day - I counted 20 PAGES of compiler options!)
If anyone already has some Code::Blocks experience, or would like to acquire some, and is interested in taking this on, please reply here or PM me.
Thanks,
Ross.
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Catalina - a FREE C compiler for the Propeller - see Catalina
Some of you may have seen that the latest version of Catalina includes Code::Blocks integration, providing a graphical development environment for C programs (similar to the various SPIN tools, AVR Workbench or Visual Studio) - see here for more information on Code::Blocks.
My intention is to make it as easy to use Catalina (and now the BlackCat source level debugger) as it is to use SPIN - and both Parallax's original and Brad's alternative SPIN tools set a very high standard!
However, this will take a little bit of Code::Blocks development. Catalina currently uses the "generic" Code::Blocks compiler plugin. While this is fully functional, it does mean that installing and using Code::Blocks with Catalina a little more difficult than it needs to be (and not well suited for newcomers who may already be struggling with both the Propeller and the C language).
Ideally, a Catalina-specific Code::Blocks plugin should be developed instead. I had intended to do this myself, but I am finding I already have too much to do and too little time. But this work is quite self-contained - you don't even need much Catalina experience to tackle it - all the Code::Blocks plugin does is allow users a better way of specifying the various Catalina command line options (and maybe do some simple checking to ensure that they are internally consistent). And in this respect, Catalina is much simpler than most other compilers (try typing 'gcc -v --help' some day - I counted 20 PAGES of compiler options!)
If anyone already has some Code::Blocks experience, or would like to acquire some, and is interested in taking this on, please reply here or PM me.
Thanks,
Ross.
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Catalina - a FREE C compiler for the Propeller - see Catalina