More an issue with the user :) but seeking guidance on .rel, .app, and .boot files

[SenseiC]

Working on some application development (VERY inexperienced with this) that will involve ports (C application interaction). The example I've played with I got from the example I found here: http://www.kazmier.com/computer/port-howto/

Now for the record... manually doing all this stuff from a shell works fine. What I wanted to know is if anything exists within ERLIDE to:

Create/modify/maintain an application's release file? To not have to do all the systools:make_script setup/execution from the console (i.e. more of a GUI-approach)? Any guidance on how to run/debug something like this example from w/in Eclipse, if that's even possible?

So on the last point, I've added the PyDev plugin, and built a PyDev project to do the "Python end" of this example which I can run from the PyDev console okay. Ultimately my goal will be a C-based application, but this existed so I started with it. Using the command line examples shown, everything functions as desired, but it sure would make MY life easier to do this from w/in Eclipse and not having to have multiple terminal windows open, etc.

Jay

[vladdu]

Hi Jay,

Unfortunately, the answer is "not yet". You can of course open the files in Eclipse as text, but that's not what you were after, I think.

Regarding running/debugging, it should be possible to enter the right incantations (i.e. the boot parameters) in the "extra arguments" field in the runtime tab of the launch configuration, but I haven't tested it.

The main reason we don't have support for this is that so far nobody asked :smile:. It's not a complicated technical problem, but I feel that coming up with a useful UI will prove quite challenging. Suggestions and feedback from people like you that actually use this stuff would be extremely useful and appreciated!