Re: IDE for Pascal-family language

Mike Sieweke wrote:

> In article <47702a3b_1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Martin Schreiber <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> >> MSEide+MSEgui:
> 
> The sum total of the configuration instructions are as follows.
> 
> 5. In 'Settings'-'Configure MSEide'-'${MSEDIR}' select
>    'yourdirectory/msegui'.

3. Extract them to a directory of your choice ('yourdirectory').
;-)

> 5a. On windows you have to setup ${COMPILER} and ${DEBUGGER}
> 
Normally the default values ('ppc386.exe', and 'gdb.exe') work, there are
some installations on windows where the exes can't be found by the OS, the
reason for the hint.

> I had to guess what to enter in each field, but it seems I
> guessed correctly.
> 
>> To create a new console project use 'Project'-'New'-'From Template',
>> select 'console.prj'.
> 
> I was able to create a new console project with this
> suggestion.  When I tried my test module that uses
> an un-initialized pointer, the IDE crashed.  I tried
> it again and it crashed again.  I started the IDE
> again and got "GDB:Timeout".  Then I commented out the
> use of a nil pointer and it worked, but it didn't
> detect a reference beyond the end of a string.
> 
Please send the project which crashes the IDE to
news://news.grid-sky.com/public.mseide-msegui.talk
GDB on win32 has some problems, you can try to use a newer from mingw:
http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=2435&use_mirror=garr&filename=gdb-6.6.tar.bz2&69271861
but it isn't perfect.

> I couldn't figure out how to turn on range and overflow
> checking.  Perhaps one needs to know the command line
> options.
> 
Yes, if you want to work with FPC you need to know FPC. :-)
Link to the compiler switch do***entation:
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/user/userse16.html#x33-400005.1
Add the switches to 'Project'-'Options'-'Make'-'Make Options'-'Command
line
options'.

> What's the difference between "make", "build", "make 1",
> "make 2", "make 3", and "make 4"?

You can provide different compiler settings
in 'Project'-'Options'-'Make'-'Make Options' for them, set the according
checkboxes. Another customizing possibility are the macro settings
in 'Project'-'Options'-'Macros', they are referenced by ${macroname}.

> How do I change the 
> compiler options for a single file?
> 
You should write unit specific compiler settings into the source, use the
{$...} syntax. Do***entation: 
http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progch1.html#x6-40001

Martin