SDCC + Eclipse

interesting , if only msx had jtag to do step by step debug

I tried Eclipse+SDCC because I were already used to Eclipse+MinGW, but many other IDE are equally good or better (I think to CodeBlocks or Dev-C++, but didn't try them).

Nice points of Eclipse:

• the error messages of SDCC are parsed correctly (click on an error in the log and you are sent to the wrong line of code)
• code coloring for .c files and somewhat for .asm files
• hover on a function name and the function definition appears as a hint
• select a function name and press Ctrl+Alt+H = show call hierarchy tree for that function

Bad points of Eclipse:

• eats too much RAM and disk!
• the __asm / __endasm blocks aren't parsed correctly (code is highlighted in yellow, as if there would be a warning)
• you can see that my notes are somewhat long and boring , i.e. probably it's a bit too long to install and configure
• rather obviously, I cannot debug directly (I use to call BlueMSX, load some symbols if needed, and activate its debugger)

I'm also curious about the environment chosen by asm-only MSX developers, I guess that not many good choices exist for that case.

(click on an error in the log and you are sent to the wrong line of code)
ahem... I meant: "you are sent to the exact line that was written with wrong syntax"

hi Konamiman, don't have sdcc at hand now, but I remember
something about use of "ar" instead of "sdcclib". Not sure, sorry.
(ar could be in the MinGW distribution)