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Migrating from Simple IDE to Eclipse

debrentdebrent Posts: 12
edited 2014-07-14 07:46 in General Discussion
Has anyone out there had success in using a different IDE for compiling code for the Activity board?

I use Eclipse for C/C++ at work and really like it as an IDE. However there seems to be a few layers of abstraction built into the 'Simple IDE' project files to make it more user friendly to beginners.

I'm pretty new to the Propeller based boards and am just getting started with my 'Activity Bot' so I'm not quite sure what would have to be ported to build a correct binary image file and get it loaded onto the board using Eclipse or some other IDE.

I'm somewhat familiar with building and loading embedded applications for a Beagleboard XM in a Linux environment, so I'm basing some of my assumptions on that. For this stuff I'm on a Windows7 platform. For those that know Eclipse, I'm running the current latest vesion (Luna) and the latest GCC (4.9.0).

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  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-07-14 05:12
    I think you will find that SimpleIDE prints out all the commands it executes when compiling, linking, loading for a Propeller.

    So, all you have to do is get your ComplexIDE...err Eclipse to do that.

    You must be the first person I have ever heard say that they like Eclipse :)
  • debrentdebrent Posts: 12
    edited 2014-07-14 05:50
    Heater. wrote: »
    You must be the first person I have ever heard say that they like Eclipse

    We started using it where I work a couple of years ago because we do a lot of development on Linux workstations. Then I think they just got tired of paying out the nose for Visual Studio licenses and migrated us to Eclipse for our Windows development as well. Most of the Engineers I work with like it and the fact that it's open source means I'm not making bi-annual contributions to Mr Gates.

    There is a bit of a learning curve as it a fairly complex tool, but it is also very powerful and configurable and good for managing large multi-threaded projects with lots of makefile dependencies. I used to use 'Understand' for C++ contextual analysis but find less and less need for it with the built in code indexing tools in the last few versions of Eclipse.

    But to each his own I suppose. I haven't used all that many IDEs so I'm certainly no expert and would not claim Eclipse to be superior to any other IDE. It just happens to be a good fit for me.
  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2014-07-14 07:13
    I've written a tutorial for Code::Blocks and another tutorial for Netbeans.. I looked briefly at Eclipse, but they don't make it as easy to set up so I didn't pursue it further.

    I prefer Netbeans, and use that for all of my development.
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2014-07-14 07:46
    Don't worry about my Eclipse comments. It's all part of a long tradition of bickering about editors, IDE's, language choices, indenting styles etc etc.

    Eclipse has the unfortunate properties of not only being complex, bloated and slow but written in the wrong language, Java. Of course the later causes the former.

    Other than that, it's fine.
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