Re: IDE for Pascal-family language

In article <4770bb9b_7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Martin Schreiber <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> > Mike Sieweke wrote:
> > 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.

Please put this info in README.TXT.

I saw "ppc386" and thought this must be configured for a
different compiler, so I changed it to fpc.  I didn't
think I had gdb, but I left it alone to be figured out
later.

> 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&f
> ilename=gdb-6.6.tar.bz2&69271861
> but it isn't perfect.

If I get around to it...  The code basically looks like
this:

program x;
type
  t = record a : integer; b : real; end;
var
  x : ^t;
begin
  writeln( x^.a );
end.

> 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'.

For common tasks an IDE should insulate me from things like
this.  Reasonable defaults would be nice.  For example there
should be build options for "debug", "speed", "size", etc.

-- 
Mike Sieweke
Duluth, GA