plugin for avr-gcc

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Mohammad H. Amir Amjadi <
m.amjadi at engineer.com> wrote:

> hey guys.
> it's a while that I'm working on Ateml AVR chips and the lack of a great
> IDE
> for this kind of stuffs is killing me. There are a number of IDEs out there
> for linux, but actually they can't satisfy me and/or other avr programmers.
> for example there is a plugin for eclipse but it is not enough as it
> doesn't
> provide code generator and also (as you know) java sucks in so many aspects
> (slow performance, ugly interface which is not native and high resource
> usage).
> So I was thinking about a new IDE for avr-gcc developed on Qt, but
> actually I
> don't have enough time to invent a new wheel, so I thought a cool plugin
> for
> KDevelop can handle the job.
> But before going further, I would say that it won't be so much of hard
> works
> to develop this plugin, as the programming lanuage is based on Gnu C (or
> pure
> gcc or whatever it is called) with a few differences. So it can be built on
> top the built-in C or C++ feature of KDevelop.
>
> avr-gcc has it's own toolchain (the gnu toolchain built for Atmel products)
> and brings its own headers and library files.
> avr-gcc has some predefined variables (as registers) which will store the
> state
> of a bit (which has a special name). An example is TCCR0 which a register
> for
> setting the functionality of Timer 0 and it contains 3 bits named CS00,
> CS01
> and CS02 which stores the status of prescaler.
> There are also some predefined functions like ISR (Interupt Service
> Routine)
> which stores some statements for particular events.
> the number of these registers and ISRs is not too high and all of them are
> provided in the datasheets of Atmel products.
>
> So what are you saying guys? you think we can develop a cool plugin for
> that?
> and also beside the code highlight and code suggestion, we need a code
> generator which will generate  prebuilt codes based on the selections of
> check
> boxes and graphical elements. (it's actually for ease of programming as
> it's
> hard to remember the name of registers and its bits)
> And a graphical frontend for AVRdude (which I have worked on that a while
> ago
> on here https://github.com/nixmd/qvrdude/tree/develop)
>
>
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Hello,
Mohammad, as you will imagine, what you want to do is possible to be done
on top on KDevelop, and I think it would be very interesting-

Personally, improving cross-platform integration in KDevelop will be an
important step towards targeting upcoming development and it's something
I'd like to see happening.

Regarding your project, I'd say that you'll have to figure out first a
couple of things, KDevelop shouldn't generate code needed for compiling the
application, usually this is done by the build tool (whatever you use) but
further than that integrating such tools should be straightforward.

Good luck!
Aleix
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