Anyway, what I'd like from Catalina or GCC is to be able to put all the relavant files into one folder and be able to run it.
What I'd like not to be required is that Catalina or GCC are installed by the user as a seperate step prior to be able to use my program.
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Easy - you can simply zip up the whole Catalina directory and unzip it anywhere you like as part of your own program install. That's how the first few versions of Catalina were installed (Windows Registry??? Yech!!!).
You just need to set the LCCDIR environment variable to point to the version you want to use. You can do this without disturbing any existing installation of Catalina if you need to.
Nah, easy. Andre Demenev has one here http://code.google.com/p/pzst/ Then there is Simple IDE of course. That skips the section background colour changes, which is all right by me.
Oh wait, they are all GPLed code, better you don't look at the source for fear of polluting your program.
Oh wait, they are all GPLed code, better you don't look at the source for fear of polluting your program.
That's exactly how I feel about it...
So, it seems like having the compiler as part of my .exe isn't going to work. I'm not even sure if having a GPL thing embedded in my closed source .exe is legal...
Looks then like I'd need to use an installer that creates a program folder for me and then puts an entire Catalina or GCC directory structure into that folder.
Will this work?
Easy - you can simply zip up the whole Catalina directory and unzip it anywhere you like as part of your own program install. That's how the first few versions of Catalina were installed (Windows Registry??? Yech!!!).
You just need to set the LCCDIR environment variable to point to the version you want to use. You can do this without disturbing any existing installation of Catalina if you need to.
Ross.
You can do something similar with Propeller GCC. In fact, Steve is doing that when he packages PropGCC with SimpleIDE. All of the GCC command-line stuff goes in a single directory.
BTW: Spent about an hour yesterday looking at how to do a Spin editor. It really is difficult...
I would not sweat the background coloration, various insertion modes, or columnnar editing. Syntax highlighting is important, along with autoindents, and different tab stops in the different program sections. The hardest part will be keeping track of the four different kinds of comments for proper highlighting.
Editors are hard. That's why many people (Jeff included) make use of pre-written edit modules that they can customize via editing, filling in parameter tables, or trapping callbacks.
I actually like the background colors. But, they make coding very difficult... The Prop Tool doesn't even get it 100% right...
I often see parts of my code with no background color and have to scroll around to get it to look right...
I would not sweat the background coloration, various insertion modes, or columnnar editing. Syntax highlighting is important, along with autoindents, and different tab stops in the different program sections.
Phil, Just in case I don't abondon this and switch to C... What is "columnar" (sp?) editing?
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Anyway, what I'd like from Catalina or GCC is to be able to put all the relavant files into one folder and be able to run it.
What I'd like not to be required is that Catalina or GCC are installed by the user as a seperate step prior to be able to use my program.
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Easy - you can simply zip up the whole Catalina directory and unzip it anywhere you like as part of your own program install. That's how the first few versions of Catalina were installed (Windows Registry??? Yech!!!).
You just need to set the LCCDIR environment variable to point to the version you want to use. You can do this without disturbing any existing installation of Catalina if you need to.
Ross.
Then there is Simple IDE of course. That skips the section background colour changes, which is all right by me.
Oh wait, they are all GPLed code, better you don't look at the source for fear of polluting your program.
That's exactly how I feel about it...
So, it seems like having the compiler as part of my .exe isn't going to work. I'm not even sure if having a GPL thing embedded in my closed source .exe is legal...
Looks then like I'd need to use an installer that creates a program folder for me and then puts an entire Catalina or GCC directory structure into that folder.
Will this work?
Editors are hard. That's why many people (Jeff included) make use of pre-written edit modules that they can customize via editing, filling in parameter tables, or trapping callbacks.
-Phil
I often see parts of my code with no background color and have to scroll around to get it to look right...
Phil, Just in case I don't abondon this and switch to C... What is "columnar" (sp?) editing?