Using CCS with a third party IDE

EdWaugh · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 127 Location: Southampton, UK

Hi all,

I'm in the process of moving to v4.x but I'm not too keen on the new IDE. Has anyone had any luck using CCS with a third party one? I have access to visual studio and can get this to kind of work using a makefile but I don't get any hot links to error/warning messages and it doesn't like the custom keywords (and I can't seem to add new ones).

I also had a play with eclipse and had similar issues with the syntax checker.

It would be great to hear of any successful implementations.

cheers

ed

PCM programmer · Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 21708

The new CCS vs. 4 IDE with ribbon menus can be configured to
use standard pull-down menus like in vs. 3. Did you know that ?

See this thread on using MSVC as the IDE and follow the links:
http://www.ccsinfo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=36607

EdWaugh · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 127 Location: Southampton, UK

I hadn't seen either of those things, I'll try both.

The CCS v3 IDE was nice and simple and quick, does anyone find a big advantage with the new one? As far as I could tell it doesn't offer the advanced editing tools like you would get with codewarrior or VS.

cheers

ed

asmallri · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 1635 Location: Perth, Australia

ckielstra · Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 3680 Location: The Netherlands

I use Microchip's MPLAB as well. Easy to setup with the CCS provided plugin and the great bonus of this IDE is the free Simulator.

bkamen · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:12 am

I used PCWHD on both MPLAB and UltraEdit (the text editor!)

Both work fine for me.

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EdWaugh · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 127 Location: Southampton, UK

So is MPLAB a good IDE on its own assuming that I don't want to use the simulator?

cheers

EdWaugh · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 127 Location: Southampton, UK

Hi all,

I got VS2008 working with the CCS compiler using Hans' software to decode the error file, this works fine but I had to put the full paths in to get it to work. You can download it here:

http://hans-w.com/download.htm

I added it as a button on the task bar, a link to external tool 1, then you just run it after a compile although there is probably a way to make it run automatically.

The only problem I now have is that it doesn't seem to be picking up my type definitions. I changed them so they are derived from ANSI standard definitions (I normally use int8 etc..) but it still hasn't picked them up.

Does anyone know if it is possible to add keywords like int8 and #byte to intellisense so that it will recognise them correctly?

Any suggestions would be most welcome.

cheers

ed

mshearer · Joined: 12 Jan 2009 Posts: 33

mplab works great with ccs

EdWaugh · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 127 Location: Southampton, UK

Just an update to this thread.

I am now using VS2008 quite successfully, making all custom keywords #pragma has helped although I still can't persuade it to do everything I want.

I also integrated Doxygen and Lint which is quite handy.

I don't suppose anyone knows how to make intellisense offer me autocomplete automatically? When I select it from the edit menu it knows all the options it just doesn't offer it when I'm typing. Perhaps I'll try a VS forum.

cheers

ed