Re: Compilers and IDE's for SWARM

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, 26 May 1998, Matthew Lund wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> We are starting a project using SWARM, which we need to develope under
> Windows 95.  I humbly submit the following two questions:
> 
> A)  Is everyone that is developing with the Windows 95 target using the GNU
> C compiler designed to run under Windows 95 or are there alternatives?
I don't know of anyone who has found a way to compile swarm apps under
win95 except for the Cygnus win32 package.  What other objective-C compiler
is there? Not Microsoft!.  On NT, I have tried to compile a swarm
app under the OPEN NT package and it didn't work, after an afternoon
I decided not to buy open NT.

> B)  My understanding is that the GNU C compiler is command-line based,
> without an IDE.  Are there any IDEs that are available to work with the GNU
> compiler?
If you look back in the list archives for Swarm-support, you will see that
many people are using emacs that has been ported to windows. Glen Ropella
announced that, as I recall.  Its not an IDE in the same "tidy" sense as 
some windows products, but many people like it.  The debugging software
works cooperatively with emacs.  I never got used to all those strange
keystrokes in emacs, so if I
were using win95,
I would consider using a nice free text editor called PFE (programmer's
file editor) and compile stuff manually.  It works OK.

Sorry I don't have more help. I got too many lockups and problems doing
swarm under win95 so I just stayed in Linux (the one true faith!).


> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt Lund
> Brigham Young University
> 
> 
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