spin2cpp SimpleIDE project conversion

Rsadeika

I was just looking at the docs for spin2cpp, and I did not notice any easy way of doing a quick conversion of a SimpleIDE Spin mode project. I think, if at all possible, this would be a good enhancement for spin2cpp. It looks to me like Spin, SimpleIDE, and project mode will be available in some form, so it seems that doing a spin2cpp conversion of a project could benefit a lot of new users. This could be a good addition, but it seems like it would be a major project, something that the Parallax Education people might consider.

Ray

SRLM

Good idea. In the meantime, here is a tutorial for the command line version of spin2cpp:

https://sites.google.com/site/propellergcc/documentation/tutorials/spin2cpp

Dr_Acula

I may be misreading the question, but I am fairly sure spin2cpp can handle projects. I think you just tell it which is the 'top' object and make sure all the referenced objects are in the same directory.

Or was the question something else?

Rsadeika

Yes, what I had in mind is a situation where you deal with the Spin project file, xxxx.prj, and spin2cpp converts that Spin project to a C or CPP project, xxxxC.prj/xxxxCPP.prj. That means that when you double click on xxxxC.prj or xxxxCPP.prj, SimpleIDE now starts up in a project that contains all the necessary files for running the converted Spin project. Now when you decide to run the new program, it should just run, without any error codes popping up at compile time.

At this time, for a new user, setting up the new C/CPP project could become cumbersome, if not confusing. Did I select the Spin file to have a "main" component at conversion time? Did I move all the necessary .c and .h file(s) into the proper locations in SimpleIDE? And there are probably some other things that I am missing at the moment. I think the goal is to make the PropGCC session, for a new user, as painless as possible. Has anybody even considered a backward conversion also, a PropGCC project being converted to a Spin project?

Ray