IDE

Technical Programming
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Just wondering what IDE other teams are using.

p.s. If you are using MS Robotics Studio, how do you like it?

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I use a combination of FusionEdit and MPLab.

Edit: You forgot EasyC on your poll.

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Edit: You forgot EasyC on your poll.

Oops, I knew I was forgetting something.
Is there any way to edit a poll? I can’t find it.

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emacs

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code::blocks

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MPLabs for the compiler, often LCC-WIN32 for editing.

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Eclipse.

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Code::Blocks

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We use MPLab with default/Kevin Watson Code, even though it is a horrible IDE. Still, it is faster using MPLab than using a good editor/ide and then using MPLab to compile.

I was thinking about making a compiler script that does the same thing as MPLab, but I’m just too lazy :smiley:

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That is why you set up your ‘good’ IDE to use the mcc18 compiler :slight_smile:

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I need help to setup Code::Blocks with mcc18

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We setup a tree of components and use gmake to tie everything together. We do not use mplab at all, but we do use c18 in command line mode to do the builds.

We don’t have a particular GUI, but we use a variety of tools to edit the source.

We can build components individually with their own main() and test functions. Thus we can build a file that only knows how to run the drive train, or we can build a program that only knows how to manipulate the tube lifter.

Most sub projects know only about themselves and some of the central services (ie timers). One sub project pulls in all the others to create the code that runs the complete robot.

We use Subversion for source code control.

This setup is very modular, but we have had a few instances where we needed to be careful of the limited path lenght support in C18.

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My team is currently using MPLab, but we are not happy with it. We’d love to use another IDE, but I haven’t yet found any information on how to use other IDEs. In particular, we would like to use Visual Studios. Code::Blocks or something like that would be fine, too. Where can I find information on using these or other IDEs with MPLab’s compiler?

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Visual Studio is pretty much out of the question, by most accounts.

Eclipse has several threads (and I’ll help you with it).

Most of the other IDEs have threads somewhere, IIRC.

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Thanks for the reply. If Visual Studios is out of the question (I find it odd that it’s on this poll if it can’t be used), then Code::Blocks would probably be our next choice. We’ve got rather slow computers, so running Eclipse might be rather demanding for them (TBH, Visual Studios probably would have been, too). I found some information on Code::Block on this forum, but the link to the makefile that the thread used was dead. If I could get some help setting up Code::Blocks, that would be great. I really don’t have a clue on where to begin (I have no experience with makefiles, or anything else related to this subject).

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Heres how to set up code::blocks…

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?p=619313#post619313

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Thanks a bunch, that worked like a charm!