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Can I use a makefile with the IDE [message #564]

Mon, 09 January 2006 18:19

DuncanShortland
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I do a lot of cross development on sngle chip micros using GCC and have most of the compilation using makefiles. Can the IDE be used with such makefiles?

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Re: Can I use a makefile with the IDE [message #568 is a reply to message #564]

Mon, 09 January 2006 20:17

mirek
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No, TheIDE is not designed with this in mind.

Mirek

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Re: Can I use a makefile with the IDE [message #747 is a reply to message #564]

Mon, 30 January 2006 18:38

mr_ped
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I would love to have such featur too, to be able to use IDE only for edit and building projects with pmake within IDE.

Than again, you can still use IDE to edit sources, and run make in separate command line window.

Makes the error messages from compiler harder to follow, so it's probably not as efficient as your current setup, it's up to you to consider such setup. I don't like it yet, but I will maybe evaluate it later.

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Re: Can I use a makefile with the IDE [message #748 is a reply to message #747]

Mon, 30 January 2006 18:53

mirek
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Thinking about it, there is "build script" option in TheIDE that allows implementing your own builder using Esc scripts. I guess you should be able to adapt it to call external makefile.

BTW, the last thing I will probably add to TheIDE before 602 release will be quite opposite - "make mode" of TheIDE (start it as "umake" capable of building U++ packages).

Mirek

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Re: Can I use a makefile with the IDE [message #766 is a reply to message #748]

Tue, 31 January 2006 21:15

mirek
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To my surprise, I have found that current U++ macro system supports "Execute" command to invoke external code (in TheIDE's console).

So in theory, it should be possible

macro "Make" Alt+M {
Execute("make ....");
}

...put this into the file with .usc extension in TheIDE's directory (or your package directory) - theide will find it and add this macro to the "Macro" menu.

Mirek

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