Anyway to invoke Makefile in Maple IDE?

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Anyway to invoke Makefile in Maple IDE?

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Started 3 years ago by fracting
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fracting
Member

Hi folks,

I'm new to here, please let me know if I miss any discussion before.

As everyone know, we can use Makefile in command line to build a maple project, what I wondering is, could we invoke Makefile in Maple IDE?
We have a team working together on a maple project, some of us use Linux, some prefer Windows IDE. We wish we could split our source code files to different directories, that's no problem on Linux with our customized Makefile, but seems Maple IDE could not recognize it, is that true?
I've read documentation, search in the forum, but no luck yet.

My questions are:
- Does Maple IDE support Makefile?
- If not, is there any plan on adding this new feature?
- If not, patches welcome?

Another question here:
- Why we use .pde as extension name instead .cpp for C++ source files in maple IDE?
Could we make Maple IDE recognize .cpp as well? (Errr, what does pde actually mean?)

Thanks a lot! Excellent project.

Posted 3 years ago #
fracting
Member

Sorry, I should post it to the Maple IDE Support forum, could admin help me to change that?
Thanks!

Posted 3 years ago #
bubulindo
Member

.pde, as far as I know comes from the Arduino and Processing environment.

http://filext.com/file-extension/PDE

I'm not on windows now, but isn't there a file called Makefile that gets called by the IDE? I can bet there is since I used it when testing the RTC on my board. Have you looked for it?

You can add your .cpp files there and use your .pde file to bring everything together. Although, you could also put your code in one of the .cpp files that you include and bypass the IDE altogether. But that would be unnecessary complication.

Posted 3 years ago #
bubulindo
Member

Ups... someone delete this. Duplicate post.

Posted 3 years ago #
poslathian
LeafLabs

fracting - first off, patches always welcome!

The short answer is no, the IDE is written in Java and the build system is also java, inherited from adruino/processing. We did some experiments switching is out to Make, but it was ugly to glue the old Java build system to the newer make system.

The good news is if you need make, you can absolutely use our make based command line tool chain, which includes targets for uploading to RAM/Flash (see the documentation on this).

Also, a make based backend for the new IDE (part of Wiring) is in the works. We agree its the right thing!

Posted 3 years ago #
fracting
Member

Poslathian, thanks for reply.

Glad to here the progress. Do we have a version control system to check out the latest developing IDE source code? I would like to be a pre-alpha testing user and give feedback if I find any issues.

I've update the "Missing Features" wiki page: http://wiki.leaflabs.com/index.php?title=Missing_Features

BTW, I really like the Captcha, haha :)

Also, do we have a bug tracking system? If no I think Bugzilla would be a good choice ;)

Posted 3 years ago #
fracting
Member

>.pde, as far as I know comes from the Arduino and Processing environment.
>http://filext.com/file-extension/PDE

@bubulindo, thanks for you information, just found a great website!
Thanks for your other advice as well, I think the best result is we could get the new IDE support Makefile in the future.

Regards :)

Posted 3 years ago #

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