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| Getting OpenWatcom C++ to work under Eclipse?? [message #69919] |
Mon, 12 May 2003 23:35  |
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Is this even fathomable? I can't stand the Watcom IDE. It is horrific. What
I would love to see is the use of the Eclipse IDE to run the command line
tools of OpenWatcom (www.openwatcom.org), perhaps the best C/C++ windows/OS2
compiler available, but use the editor and features of Eclipse to maintain
projects. I would love to see the use of Ant to make build files for it, or
an integrated build system in Eclipse. As well, code completion, debugging,
etc would be awesome to see incorporated.
Is all of this even remotely possible? Worse case I'll take just the IDE
aspects for editing, project management and forgo profiling/debugging, if
that is harder.
Thanks.
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| Re: Getting OpenWatcom C++ to work under Eclipse?? [message #69962 is a reply to message #69919] |
Tue, 13 May 2003 09:36  |
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Originally posted by: dkel.unknown.com
It would be similar I would think to the way you would get MS VC++ or
Borland C++ to work.
You need the command line tools on the path, and a make facility, I don't
know if Watcom provide a make
facility but you can download unix equivalents for Windows, then you write
your own make files to build
your application. I haven't looked to see if you could get ant to work, it
isn't built into CDT, but there was mention of someone creating a prototype
to use it.
You would need to use the debugger shipped with watcom to debug your
program, define it as an external tool, this is how I used it for VC++.
Dave
"Kevin" <supreme_java_guru_1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:b9ppa6$upt$1@rogue.oti.com...
> Is this even fathomable? I can't stand the Watcom IDE. It is horrific.
What
> I would love to see is the use of the Eclipse IDE to run the command line
> tools of OpenWatcom (www.openwatcom.org), perhaps the best C/C++
windows/OS2
> compiler available, but use the editor and features of Eclipse to maintain
> projects. I would love to see the use of Ant to make build files for it,
or
> an integrated build system in Eclipse. As well, code completion,
debugging,
> etc would be awesome to see incorporated.
>
> Is all of this even remotely possible? Worse case I'll take just the IDE
> aspects for editing, project management and forgo profiling/debugging, if
> that is harder.
>
> Thanks.
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| Re: Getting OpenWatcom C++ to work under Eclipse?? [message #70022 is a reply to message #69962] |
Tue, 13 May 2003 23:45 |
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So the question for me is, does CDT provide code completion, and so forth,
does it allow project management in that I can define the location to header
files, compiled dlls, etc, and it would look inside them to find function
declarations, show squiggly lines in the editor if I try to use a function
that doesn't exist, etc?
"Dave" <dkel@unknown.com> wrote in message
news:b9qs71$qab$1@rogue.oti.com...
> It would be similar I would think to the way you would get MS VC++ or
> Borland C++ to work.
> You need the command line tools on the path, and a make facility, I don't
> know if Watcom provide a make
> facility but you can download unix equivalents for Windows, then you write
> your own make files to build
> your application. I haven't looked to see if you could get ant to work, it
> isn't built into CDT, but there was mention of someone creating a
prototype
> to use it.
>
> You would need to use the debugger shipped with watcom to debug your
> program, define it as an external tool, this is how I used it for VC++.
>
> Dave
>
> "Kevin" <supreme_java_guru_1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:b9ppa6$upt$1@rogue.oti.com...
> > Is this even fathomable? I can't stand the Watcom IDE. It is horrific.
> What
> > I would love to see is the use of the Eclipse IDE to run the command
line
> > tools of OpenWatcom (www.openwatcom.org), perhaps the best C/C++
> windows/OS2
> > compiler available, but use the editor and features of Eclipse to
maintain
> > projects. I would love to see the use of Ant to make build files for it,
> or
> > an integrated build system in Eclipse. As well, code completion,
> debugging,
> > etc would be awesome to see incorporated.
> >
> > Is all of this even remotely possible? Worse case I'll take just the IDE
> > aspects for editing, project management and forgo profiling/debugging,
if
> > that is harder.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
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| Re: Getting OpenWatcom C++ to work under Eclipse?? [message #70060 is a reply to message #70022] |
Wed, 14 May 2003 05:41 |
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Originally posted by: dkel.unknown.com
CDT provides some level of code completion but it isn't comprehensive at the
moment. From my experience
it only works for files you have editted, and only provides completion for
functions found in C files and not
Header files. I expect this will improve in future releases of CDT (at least
that is what I hope).
What CDT provides for me is that it highlights which files and projects have
warnings or errors, and will highlight the line which has been flagged. This
works for MS VC++, I haven't tried other compilers.
I too am hoping that code completion is improved, I would also like to see
automatic make file generation or a make file editor as well as support for
using ANT to build my projects. But for cross platform development of non
gui applications I have found CDT to be a capable environment. I can plugin
a source management facility, and have great file compare facilities as well
as the ability to undo. I also like the facility where I save a file and it
is automatically compiled and highlights problems in that and other places
(so long as your make file is correctly written of course).
Dave
"Kevin" <supreme_java_guru_1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:b9se9j$4kg$1@rogue.oti.com...
> So the question for me is, does CDT provide code completion, and so forth,
> does it allow project management in that I can define the location to
header
> files, compiled dlls, etc, and it would look inside them to find function
> declarations, show squiggly lines in the editor if I try to use a function
> that doesn't exist, etc?
>
>
> "Dave" <dkel@unknown.com> wrote in message
> news:b9qs71$qab$1@rogue.oti.com...
> > It would be similar I would think to the way you would get MS VC++ or
> > Borland C++ to work.
> > You need the command line tools on the path, and a make facility, I
don't
> > know if Watcom provide a make
> > facility but you can download unix equivalents for Windows, then you
write
> > your own make files to build
> > your application. I haven't looked to see if you could get ant to work,
it
> > isn't built into CDT, but there was mention of someone creating a
> prototype
> > to use it.
> >
> > You would need to use the debugger shipped with watcom to debug your
> > program, define it as an external tool, this is how I used it for VC++.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > "Kevin" <supreme_java_guru_1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:b9ppa6$upt$1@rogue.oti.com...
> > > Is this even fathomable? I can't stand the Watcom IDE. It is horrific.
> > What
> > > I would love to see is the use of the Eclipse IDE to run the command
> line
> > > tools of OpenWatcom (www.openwatcom.org), perhaps the best C/C++
> > windows/OS2
> > > compiler available, but use the editor and features of Eclipse to
> maintain
> > > projects. I would love to see the use of Ant to make build files for
it,
> > or
> > > an integrated build system in Eclipse. As well, code completion,
> > debugging,
> > > etc would be awesome to see incorporated.
> > >
> > > Is all of this even remotely possible? Worse case I'll take just the
IDE
> > > aspects for editing, project management and forgo profiling/debugging,
> if
> > > that is harder.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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