I am currently writing an IDE for the Borland Command-Line compiler for the competition. It is getting along decently but I would appreciate a little advice on compiling, maybe an example batch file for a decent sized project? It's going to be awesome :D

:lol: Your making an IDE, too? Yours is probably going to be better than mine because I didn't spend as much time as I wanted to on it. I'll help you out a bit. For a program with no resource, this would work:

btool is the name of the source and exe, and log.txt is the file created where compilation details go in. Here's some code if you want to use resources:

This is for my Dragon Text Editor.

Hope that helps!

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Didn't see that at first. Not fair! I wasn't planning on entering my IDE, but maybe I will now.

Thanks

Hehehe... i also am planning on starting a ide for it... but first i got to finish my current project thats for the compitiion... my ide would take far more then from now and 10 days left :P

10 days... I don't think he gave us long enough to make anything really good. Oh well, I have it working to some extent (no compiling yet but a GUI for editing the project files) and I've only been working on it for about 8 hours total.

If there's enough whining then maybe the deadline will be extended a bit. :lol:

Also, TheHawgMaster, I assume you are using batch files to compile? Can you tell me how you are making the feature for saving to a batch file? My current code for it works fine, but I'm sure it's not the best way.

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As for my status on my IDE, I'm done with the editor (it's based off of my Dragon Text Editor, so just copy and paste there). I am now working on the compile options part and the actual compilation. As for now I'm just going to have the program create a batch file containing the compile information and then have the program execute it.

For the most part my progress is quite different from yours because I am writing it with the MFC framework. I havn't yet made the compiling and editing features (they shouldn't be challenging). btw tI wouldn't use my code as a model for efficiency because I am just trying to write it as quickly as possible with no regard as to efficiency or style so my batch creating system could well end up being worse than yours. ( I will prbably have a batch export and direct compil features)

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That's okay. I'm going to go with the easiest way I know (I don't want to spend a lot of time on writing to the batch file): C++ file I/O (with ifstream and ofstream). It may not be the best way but it's sure easy. :)

If everyone is working on an IDE than I'll also :P . Anyway I have already worked about 3 hours on it and have 300 lines of code and a first GUI. I'm using the API.

Lol. :lol:

Maybe we should have a competition for the best IDE for the Borland C++ Compiler. :lol:

Na, I'm not going to make it open source :P

That's fine. :)

Are you planning on entering something for the competition? It wouldn't be a lot of fun if only two or three people entered.

Yeah, I'm going to enter a string class. I'll try to make the functions similar to the ones GM has.

There are already a million good string classes all over the place... Maybe it would be better to make something original.

Really? I looked on google and all I found was a shareware one and lots of tuts and docs about std::string.

Beside this cometion is not about originalyity but usefulness and a string class is in my eyes more useful than a notepad with a compile button (of which at least 20 freeware ones exist). :P

I realize that many IDEs have been made but at least there isn't one in the SCL.

What exactly is an IDE, and how would you make one?

IDE - Integrated Development Environment

An IDE is a visual editor for source code. I don't understand what you mean by "how would you make one." You program it.

What I meant was is there any special library such as openGL or something, but I guess not

What are you talking about? There's no library for an IDE.

Now I know that :)