Terry, If you like IDEs, clion works pretty great with KiCad in my experience. It requires cmake, so it has pretty great cmake support :)
Adam Wolf On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 8:48 PM, Terry Gray <twgray2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I think that is where the development environment comes in. I am in > Linux and use number of different IDE's: Code::Blocks, CodeLight, Eclipse > CDT, etc. In most of these, when the project is set up inside the IDE, when > debugging you can edit the source in the same buffer as the debugger is > displaying, and I can set a breakpoint at the error, stop debugging, make an > edit, recompile and debug. Code::Blocks is a pretty good lightweight IDE > but has very poor cmake support and CodeLight is only a bit better. > > As a side note, I am finally biting the bullet and trying to learn Emacs. > Is anyone using it on the Kicad tree? Care to share a good cmake .init.el > file? > > > On 09/07/2017 08:38 PM, Jon Evans wrote: > > On Linux you can run the binaries from the project directory (or at least, I > can). So on my Linux machines I can build and debug individual parts . On > MacOS I do have to run make install like you say, but then can debug things > from my temporary install directory. What do you mean by edit > interactively, though? > > -Jon > > On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 9:32 PM, Terry Gray <twgray2...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> As a new addition to this group I have a question. What are the prevalent >> dev. environments used by the primary Kicad developers. This might seem an >> inconsequential query, but I have a good reason for asking. As far as I can >> discern (and I am hoping you guys can help clear this up for me) the current >> project structure doesn't seem to lend itself to the normal edit, build, >> debug cycle. At least as far as I can tell. The built executables won't >> execute in place with them in their corresponding project directories...that >> is to say, Kicad will execute but it can't instantiate eeschema because it >> can't find all the libraries. I am currently performing a make install, to >> a local directory, to keep from corrupting my working installation, and I >> can debug from there but I can't edit interactively since the embedded .elf >> code isn't the original source. Can someone clear this up for me? >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
