I just installed the current release of C::B v8.02. It does include a
manual which appears to be well designed. As I want to start a new
project, I find under "CodeBlocks Project Management", this encouraging
statement: "CodeBlocks offers a very flexible and comprehensive project
management. The following text will address only some of the features of
the project management." "Only some"? If the author knows of other
features, why does he not at least list them, and fill in the detail later?
Already there is a shadow of doubt creeping in. But proceeding to the
next page, it says: "The easiest way to create a new project is
executing the command 'File' /'Project' and selecting a wizard".
Unfortunately, there is no 'Project' option on the file menu. There are
only 'Recent Project' and 'Import Project' both of which require an
existing project. This is supposed to help me start a new project, one
which has no preexistence?
Going back to the Startup Page, there is a 'Create a new project' option
which brings up a dialog displaying a group of wizards including an
'Empty project'. No SDCC project, and only one embedded microcontroller
project wizard for an AVR. Should I begin with the blank sheet, or start
an AVR and modify it for my 8051 derivative?
Going back to the manual, an index tab search for 'template' offers two
topics, Codesnippets and Source Code Exporter. Neither of these look
right. Back on the contents tab under C::B Project Management, there is
a page titled 'Project Template'. It contains this paragraph:
"CodeBlocks is supplied with a variety of project templates which are
displayed when creating a new project. However, it is also possible to
store custom templates for collecting your own specifications for
compiler switches, the optimisation to be used, machine-specific
switches etc. in templates. These templates will be stored in the
Documents and Settings\/</user/>/\Application
Data\codeblocks\UserTemplates directory. If the templates are to be open
to all users, they have to be copied to a corresponding directory of the
CodeBlocks installation. These templates will then be displayed at the
next startup of CodeBlocks under 'New' /' Project' /'User templates'."
So thats where they moved the 'Project' menu item! Except there is no
menu called 'New', and I wouldn't expect there to be. There is a
File/New/Project... however, which produces the dialog with the Wizards.
I need a rest break before attempting to work through one of these
wizards. I just wanted to offer this actual experience for whatever it
may be worth to anyone considering a new manual for SDCC, because this
is pretty typical of my own experience with open source help systems. As
Richard Erlacher has pointed out, there is the appearance that the
documentation author was unable to read the code, misread the code, Or
the coder changed the code without communicating that fact to the
documentation author.
The experience of others may vary, and so far there is no reason to
suspect that Code::Blocks doesn't work as advertised, and if it doesn't,
the fault would surely not lie with the program. And the documentation
is probably right too, somewhere and/or sometime. Maybe I just misread
the advertisement.
Bobby
JBarbosa wrote:
Below is a link to the Code::Blocks site and some chunks of text from
the opening page.
I 'm working exclusively with Windows.
SDCC is called by means of a .bat file containing the command lines,
C::B allows us to set a tool to invoke that .bat and 'voila'!
If your PC has more than one core, they are used,
The site gives access to several foruns, one of them is dedicated to
the 'nightly builds' that allows us to update C::B every day, simply
by downloading it and extract the files straight to the C::B directory
and thats all.
http://www.codeblocks.org/
http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
"The open source, cross platform, free C++ IDE."
* Windows 2000 / XP / Vista
* Linux (Ubuntu & Debian, 32 & 64 bits)
* Mac OS X 10.4+
Supported compilers
* GNU GCC (incl. G77) <http://gcc.gnu.org/> (Linux)
* MinGW GCC (incl. G77) <http://www.mingw.org/> (Win32)
* MSP430 GCC <http://mspgcc.sourceforge.net/> (Win32, Linux, BSD)
* TriCore GCC <http://www.hightec-rt.com/> (Win32, Linux)
* PowerPC GCC <http://www.hightec-rt.com/> (Win32, Linux)
* Apple GCC (Xcode) <http://developer.apple.com/tools/> (Mac OS X)
* Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003
<http://xona.com/2004/06/29.html> (Win32)
* Microsoft Visual C++ 2005
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/visualc/download/>
(Win32)
* Borland's C++ Compiler 5.5
<http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_cbuilder.html>
(Win32)
* DigitalMars C/C++ <http://www.digitalmars.com/> (Win32)
* OpenWatcom <http://openwatcom.org/index.php/Main_Page> (Win32)
* Intel C++ compiler
<http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/compilers/219754.htm>
(Win32)
* Small Device C Compiler (SDCC) <http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/>
* Digital Mars D <http://www.digitalmars.com/d/dcompiler.html>
(Win32, Linux)
* GDC D Compiler <http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/>
Regards
Jose Barbosa
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