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Unread 18-02-2007, 22:15
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Re: What IDE DID you use?

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Originally Posted by Astronouth7303 View Post
Maybe next year, I can get CDs in all the kits. (I'll need lots of help!)
FIRSTclipse doesn't need 1400 CDs, but you do need a click-n-go installer available for download from SF that just plain works. I spent the better part of a day after school getting it to work on my machine, the trick ended up being specifing the library files w/o spaces (eg. C:\EXAMPL~1\E-PATH~1\IN-OLD-F~1\ORMAT~1\FRC_AL~1.LIB). Eclipse and the MCC18 tools also didn't play well at first with Subversion (Clean->Build All deleted some .svn directories and corrupted a repo I had going when I tried to commit the .hex files, luckily I was only 3 revs in from the default code). There were other issues as well, lots of tweaking paths-especially under Linker Information-and fiddling with MinGW make (which does work). It's just not as convienent as MPLAB.

However, I haven't run MPLAB since April of last year. Refactoring support, a quick diff viewer, and autocomplete are addictive, as is Ctrl+F3.

Other than that, I usually prototype with Dev-C++ when doing quirky C things like function pointers and Zend Studio 5.2 when just playing with program logic.

Robinson Levin