Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Kasemir, Kay" <[email protected]> · Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:50:31 -0400

Hello:

You can use pretty much any C/C++ IDE for EPICS driver development as long as it supports 'make', as most of them do.

If you like Eclipse, you can use the C/C++ IDE version of Eclipse. Create your EPICS project as described in the EPICS IOC Application developers guide with makeBaseApp.pl, then in the Eclipse IDE create a standard makefile project, using the top directory that you just created with makeBaseApp.pl as the project directory. In the Eclipse IDE you can then add "Make Targets" to invoke the makeBaseApp.pl-generated Makefile with targets like "clean", "all", …
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The "EPICS" plugin mentioned by Pete basically adds a project wizard to Eclipse that invokes makeBaseApp.pl for you. Instead of calling it on the command-line, you now get a dialog box to invoke it.
Personally, I am not sure how much you gain from this. When working on a new EPICS project, invoking makeBaseApp.pl is a minuscule task. You will need a good understanding of the makeBaseApp directory structure, the EPICS make files anyway. You have to read and understand the EPICS IOC Application developers guide. If you can't invoke makeBaseApp.pl on the command line, if you don't find your way around the EPICS make files, you will have a very hard time entering anything useful in the "Create a new EPICS project" dialog box, and you'll be totally lost when you first need to add a new *.db file, *.cpp source .. to the Makefiles.

So for me, I've been using the Eclipse C++ IDE for EPICS based projects for years, but never needed the "EPICS" plugin.

Thanks,
Kay

On Aug 22, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Pete Jemian <[email protected]> wrote:
> Vikram:
> 
> There is some help for developing EPICS C and C++ code with Eclipse, 
> using an eclipse plugin called "Eclipse IDE".  The plugin and 
> documentation was created many years ago, about the time eclipse 3 was 
> just released, and is no longer maintained.
> 
> But this might get you started.
> 
> http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/eclipse/plugins/epicsIde/epicsIde.html
> 
> Pete
> 
> On 8/22/2013 2:52 AM, Vikram Bhagat wrote:
>> Hi,
>>    I am beginner in EPICS,   i want to learn EPICS development. I
>> started with computer serial port driver using standard asyn Driver.  My
>> basic interest is EPICS & linux driver development.  Presently i am
>> developing linux & EPICS driver development with just command line
>> compilation.  Linux driver is  in "C & C++".
>> Is there any way integrate EPICS development in eclipse IDE?
>> I mean, do we have EPICS/asyn plugins for eclipse that can make easy to
>> develop EPICS driver development easy with eclipse IDE like java & c
>> development in eclipse.
>> 
>> My development system is Fedora.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks & Regards
>> 
>> Vikram
> 
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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