Comments on: Wascana is Eclipse Based Standalone C++ IDE for MS Windows

By: Build C++ Programs With SCons in Eclipse Using SConsBuilder Plugin(MS Windows)

Build C++ Programs With SCons in Eclipse Using SConsBuilder Plugin(MS Windows) — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:45:08 +0000

[...] with Eclipse Europa, CDT plugin, MinGW toolchain (among other things) all integrated together. Read my post about the Wascana IDE for more [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:26:16 +0000

Please integrate the ACE library with Wascana. Thanks!

By: tabrez

tabrez — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:58:27 +0000

I am glad to read that you are looking to refocus on the Windows version as of now.

I have used plugins for CppUnit and CxxTest in Eclipse: I hate CppUnit’s graphical QtTestRunner but it is adequate if its console TestRunner is acceptable. CxxTest integrates very well with Eclipse GUI but I couldn’t run it with MinGW toolchain yet(ran well with Eclipse/Cygwin and outside of Eclipse).

The Scons-Builder plugin for Eclipse lacks documentation, is far from perfect, but it is functional to the extent that I rarely have to leave Eclipse and go to the command-line to use SCons. I love the integration of Eclox/Doxygen, AnyEdit plugins in EasyEclipse.

Finally, I must say that it’s heartening to see such positive response from you to the users’ feedback :)

By: Doug Schaefer

Doug Schaefer — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:27:48 +0000

It’s still at 3.4.5. There was a light of hope for moving to 4.2.1, but Danny Smith, the gcc maintainer for mingw has stepped down. Hopefully someone else will pick it up. What I saw of it, 4.2 rocks with some awesome global optimizations. It made me thing that I wouldn’t need to integrate with the Microsoft compiler. But there were bugs in it.

gdb still has issues with the Windows stack, though, especially when you suspend in the middle of a win32 call. That’s another issue that will need to be addressed. I’m not sure anyone is looking at that either.

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:58:41 +0000

Which g++ version is included in Wascana? 3.4.5 or a later version?

By: Doug Schaefer

Doug Schaefer — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:36:17 +0000

Thanks for this kind post :). I’ll definitely take your suggestions. I agree with you on the Linux/Mac front. The idea was to give the identical environment for people on those platforms but the Linux distros are doing a good job of getting the CDT there and I don’t have a Mac to even see what needs to be done there. Windows is the platform that needs the most attention right now and we should probably refocus just on that.

Beyond libraries, I see Unit Test as being a critical add on. We do have an old CPPUnit integration but I’m not sure it works now or whether other packages are now better. There are a few people in the CDT community poking at Doxygen too. And I’ve been bugged about Scons integration since the early days of the CDT :).

Thanks again! Doug.