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Profane question: can I use the IDE for another compiler/debugger?

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Arjan van Dijk

Hi,

About 50 percent of my programming is done in Freepascal where I really really (!!) have
developed a profound (!!!) appreciation for the IDE, which just brings me back to the old Borland times.

But:

In the other 50 percent of time I have to (no escape) work with FORTRAN. At first I wrote a bunch of NEdit macros to mimic the Freepascal IDE in NEdit. In this way
there was not much difference. Only then they rewrote the NEdit macro-language and
to be honest: the interfacing between Nedit and gdb never really worked.

Question:

Can someone from the development team tell me if the Freepascal IDE can be told to
call a FORTRAN compiler instead of Freepascal, and use gdb instead of the Freepascal debugger? Just like the Freepascal website can be switched from english to dutch, I would like to be able to switch the IDE from Pascal to Fortran.

Thanks for any suggestion,

Regards,

Arjan

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Daniël Mantione
to Arjan van Dijk

Op Thu, 12 Jul 2007, schreef Arjan van Dijk:

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Question: Can someone from the development team tell me if the Freepascal IDE can be told to call a FORTRAN compiler instead of Freepascal, and use gdb instead of the Freepascal debugger? Just like the Freepascal website can be switched from english to dutch, I would like to be able to switch the IDE from Pascal to Fortran.

Not without programming. Both the compiler and debugger are built into the IDE and as of such the IDE cannot be configured to use a different compiler. The source code of the IDE is flexible enough to allow adding Fortran facilities, but it would keep you busy for a while.

Daniël

Martin Schreiber
to Arjan van Dijk: About 50 percent of my programming is done in Freepascal where I really really (!!) have…
Arjan van Dijk wrote 10 lines
Can someone from the development team tell me if the Freepascal IDE can be told to call a FORTRAN compiler instead of Freepascal, and use gdb instead of the Freepascal debugger? Just like the Freepascal website can be switched from english to dutch, I would like to be able to switch the IDE from Pascal to Fortran. Thanks for any suggestion,

If your application runs in gdb and you work in i386-linux or i386-win32 you can use MSEide:

http://www.homepage.bluewin.ch/msegui/

You need to write the syntax definition file for the source highlighter, a text file with the key words and the like. At the moment there are definitions available for Pascal, C/C++ and SQL only. I am currently at work to accomplish the build interface more universal and less FPC specific.

Martin