Re: [open-cobol-list] GUI for compiler

[Gilles Crebassa]

Hi all,


Just for info, Eclipse have a plug-in for Cobol usage. (http://www.eclipse.org/cobol/)
Its also really easy to create a Editor (1) on cobol using Qt framework because :

- most of it use the syntax highlighter (Scintilla)
- plugin available or scripting
- linux/unix/windows compatibility
- the new Qt 4.5 is GPL free for commercial product.(2)


(1)
http://www.monkeystudio.org/
http://qdevelop.org/
http://www.edyuk.org/




(2) 
http://blog.qtfr.org/post/2009/03/03/Qt-450-Qt-Creator-10-Qt-SDK
http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/news/nokia-releases-new-qt-developer-offerings-to-increase-productivity-and-performance

2009/3/10 Brian Tiffin <address@hidden>

I'm slowly building up the extension for GNAT Programming Studio.  Yes, it has
a very Ada centric nature, but with a little effort it could be quite the
little OpenCOBOL IDE.  So far I'm impressed, and have only scratched the
surface of what this tool could offer in terms of feature integration.
Especially in terms of getting multi-lingual OpenCOBOL, C, Vala, Guile,
humming nicely with glib and GTK+ for some very nice GUI and network aware
OpenCOBOL applications.  And hey, Ada includes COBOL interfacing as part of
its official specification, so if we do a good enough job, perhaps AdaCore
will build some of the extension right into a later release of gnat-gps.

I've already got a nice menu for compile and build, start of a highlighter, a
text completion alias that just requires "program" and Ctrl-O to get a fully
fleshed out program skeleton, etc...  Still need to work out the best way to
get the stderr from make to be noticed by the internal editor, for quick fix
mode, just haven't looked all that closely yet.  I'll look at hooking in
docgen and document views as well (in a few lines of XML customization).

The gaping hole in all this is still the symbolic debugger.  The best way of
working out the hooks for gdb is up in the air.  And I think we should target
efforts at getting hooks for gdb as the debugger of choice.  I don't find
linking the commented OpenCOBOL/C output and running gdb as-is difficult at
all, but some may need or want a little more, and that should be worked out.

See opencobol.org GPS posts for details.

Cheers,
Brian

On March 1, 2009 10:51:11 pm David Essex wrote:
> I found this post on the COBOL-IT forum [1], under 'General discussion -
> GUI for compiler'.
>
> It's not an IDE and it is intended for the MSVC port of OC.
> But it looks Wind*ws user friendly and should work on both MinGW and
> Cygw*n.
>
> GolfCat wrote:
> > Please take a look at the new CobShell [2].
> > CobShell is a GUI tool for the COBOL-IT Compiler Suite on the
> > Visual C 2008 Express distribution.
>
> 1) COBOL-IT forum
> http://www.cobol-it.org/forum/
> 2) CobShell
> http://www.bodingh.se/cobol/


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