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Re: Some Questions: IDE for GCC

2005-02-20 by dsidlauskas1

You can get a very nice free source code editor at
http://www.crimsoneditor.com/

It can be configured to call external programs such as a compiler or
linker, so you could use it as a simple IDE.

Hope this helps.

Dave Sidlauskas




--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, Jens Hildebrandt <jens38769@g...> wrote:
> unity0724 wrote:
> > 
> > Hi, Some Questions:
> > 
> > My Arm GCC for LPC21xx is not very well setup on my PC, 
> > and thinking of...
> > 
> > a) UltraEdit+GCC
> > Had anybody tried using UltraEdit32 as simple IDE
> > for GCC?   I'm thinking of buying a copy of UltraEdit32
> > and use it on either GCC from gnuarm.com or codesourcery.
> > I only need a good editor with capability of calling the
> > GCC Compiler+linker.   Capability of able to move you 
> > directly to the code line with errors once you click on the
> > compilation status windows (as in Ms Visual Studio) is NOT
> > needed. 
> > I'm using windows' notepad for source file editing now...
> > 
> > b) Visual Studio as IDE for GCC?
> > I've a copy of Ms Visual Studio Ver6.   Is it possible/
> > difficult to customise the Ms IDE for GCC??
> > Will only try that if somebody says is a piece of cake..
> > 
> > c) Windows CE .net 4.2/Platform builder
> > Anybody uses Windows CE .net for embedded code development??
> > Is WEIRD idea but this software package might have a compiler
> > which is able to compile anything down to embedded boot code
> > and etc, and it comes with a very very huge, scale-able OS....
> > 
> > Regards   /MH
> > 
> 
> I have used UltraEdit+GCC for LPC20xx development in the past. Not
much comfort like in VS but at 
> least syntax highlighting and some pretty good text editing
capabilities. I now use IBM's Eclipse 
> 3.0 and I don't wish back to the old days of Ultra Edit. Eclipse
with the CDT plugin (needed for C 
> development) is a powerful yet flexible (and free!) IDE allowing
easy integration of different 
> compilers and other tools (like the LPC download utility). IMHO, it
plays in the same league as VS 
> (no flamewar if anyone disagrees, please).
> There is a very good tutorial at
>
http://www.newmicros.com/download/appnotes/ARM/TiniARM_Dev_Eclipse.pdf
(12MB file!)
> describing how to setup cygwin, gcc, eclipse, boot loader - in
short, everything you need to start 
> developing for the LPC2000 family. Give it a try, you won't be
dissapointed (except, may be, by the 
> startup time of Eclipse - it's written in JAVA entirely).
> 
> HTH,
> Jens

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