providing COMPILER, DEBUGGER facility in IDE

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I m working on c editor project, my que is "how to provide compiler and debugger for my ide ?"

Plz help me.. Thanks you..

Posted 16-Feb-11 3:00am

golu jadhav

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#realJSOP · Answer 1 · 2011-02-16T03:19:00

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You could execute an external compiler (like NMake), and even a debugger. I suspect you'll find info on google with the appropriate search phrase.

Posted 16-Feb-11 3:19am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 16-Feb-11 11:33am

That's correct, my 5, but the main topic here is stdout/stderr redirection. I tried to answer, please see.
--SA

CPallini 16-Feb-11 15:36pm

I don't think stdout/stderr redirection is the main topic. :-)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 16-Feb-11 19:28pm

Well, a matter of taste. This is the key that stops some. Maybe I stressed it's value because when I needed to create my own IDEs (and also UI-based Console replacement, which is not trivial at all), I had very polished process of UI development buy I was new to re-direction stuff.
--SA

CPallini 16-Feb-11 15:36pm

Good answer, my 5.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2011-02-16T05:31:00

Providing a compiler is relatively easy. You need to use System.Diagnostics.Process to span a process running a compiler. Main thing you need to do is to re-direct stdout and stderr streams to the streams created by your program. In this way you will be able to present errors and compiler output to your controls. See Process.StandardError, Process.StandardOutput.

Again, this is feasible. This is how I started Java development and even .NET development before I got Visual Studio.NET: created my own editor with redirection of compiler streams.

Please see more detail my new Answer to a similar Question, where I put more details based on my Answers on different questions: invoking compiler from our application[^].

—SA

Espen Harlinn · Answer 3 · 2011-02-16T08:58:00

Solution 3

To see a 'live' example of SAKryukovs' answer - take a look at:
#develop (short for SharpDevelop) is a free IDE for C#, VB.NET and Boo projects[^]

If you are working on an IDE - looking at a successful implementation could be quite useful - good luck :)

Regards
Espen Harlinn

Posted 16-Feb-11 8:58am

Espen Harlinn

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 16-Feb-11 15:34pm

Great, thank you for supporting me. I advised this software recently in reply to some other question (on Intellisense or something like that). The only problem is that the code is pretty big.
5 for your Answer.
--SA

Espen Harlinn 16-Feb-11 15:45pm

It’s also a tremendous learning experience, the project leverages many interesting parts of the core .Net functionality – even if you don’t dig to deep into all its parts, you can acquire an abundance of practical knowledge about the workings of .Net.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 16-Feb-11 19:23pm

I know; few years ago I found and used docking UI from this work (needed some patches from me).
However, I worked quite a bit at my own IDEs, that's why I'm familiar with CreateProcessEx based technique. One of such works is my experimental Computer Algebra System engine with IDE-like fron-end.
--SA

JF2015 17-Feb-11 0:58am

References to #Develop are always deserving a 5!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Feb-11 20:45pm

Update: added a reference to my more detained Answer (last sentence).
--SA