Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Hello,

 

“Since Eclipse C/C++ "projects" can only build based on one pre-specified Makefile, you can't selectively build in sub-directories”

 

This is possible if you use the Make Target feature.  Select your sub directory, and select New Make Target from the menu.  Give it a name and enter your build command (eg mingw32-make).  You can now just make the sub directory by right clicking on your new target and selecting Build Target.

 

Hope this is useful,

 

James O’Hea

 

Diamond Light Source

 

 

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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