Re: [avr-chat] Kdevelop for avr-gcc?

[Trevor White]

I am still new to Kdevelop. I wanted to get stuck into coding and have 
got myself set up with a Linux development enviroment. I was using 
WINAVR before and it is fantastic. The only thing that lets it down is 
that it is running on Windows, 8¬p.

I was wondering if to use an IDE or not. I did think about emacs. I 
looked into Kdevelop and it just fell into place. There is a 
documentation tab a click away. If there is something about C or 
Kdevelop or anything else, the whole docs system is there. You can 
search man pages, etc. The documentation tab is a great tool. The search 
facility is so useful.

It interfaces with CVS which is great. I am still feeling my way round 
CVS but from Kdevelop I can read the info pages on it. I still keep a 
terminal window open for doing some CVS stuff but whilst coding I find 
it nice to just backup a version of code before I try something silly 
with it.

I had to do some work the other day with a php script just to format a 
file. I was basically converting a font set from one format into a 
single array ready to place into prog space. Anyway, I wrote the script 
in PHP along side my normal C coding. I opened up a terminal window to 
execute the script and loaded the resultant output file in Kdevelop to 
check, etc. It just becomes really nice to start using for lots of 
things. When I think about doing any coding first thing I do is open 
Kdevelop.

I have not learned anywhere near all the great stuff it can do but even 
at this early stage I am feeling really comfortable using it. I feel 
happy that is should cope with me as I grow.

Hope this helps.

Kishore wrote:

> On Monday 07 Mar 2005 2:50 pm IST, Trevor White wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi, I use Kdevelop3 for development. Under the project menu options you
> > can import a project. This allows you to import a makefile. I did this
> > with a makefile I edited from WINAVR. Once I imported it, all the
> > options were sorted out and I was able to compile and program from
> > within Kdevelop. It works really really well.
> >    
>
> So this means that my best options would be to use something like Mfile to 
> generate the makefile inside the folder containing my source and then 
> import the project into kdevelop.
>
> Well this seems like a good option but also the question "Why use 
> Kdevelop?". Can Kdevelop or any other IDE for that matter give any value 
> add? All i need to do is run make in the directory right?
>
> Can Kdevelop give any debugging, simulation support? Also another good 
> value add can be an peripheral initializer. A mechanism to generate code 
> based on user input to initialize peripherals!?
>  



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