Here I have put some information about my experiments with Peter Broadberys Eclipse development environment for Aldor. This is a set of eclipse plugins for developing aldor code.
To install this environment:
Goto Peters github page and click on 'releases' there's a tarball (green button) which is the compiled version with the plugins ready to go. The git repo is the source code corresponding to it. |
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| Unzip to a local directory (I just left it set to aldor-eclipse.0.0.3). | |
| Start eclipse, goto Help/Install new software | |
Click on Add (near top right corner), then Add a local repository, Location is where you unpacked the files earlier. May need to unselect the 'list items by category' option. |
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| Set "Work with" to the newly added rep (if it hasn't defaulted to it) | |
| You may need to unselect 'Group Items by Category' | |
| Pick aldor from the list.. If there is two, pick both. | |
Click install, and work through the various prompts.
Creating a project: This will prompt for a name, and then create an empty project. If the aldor plugin is installed, there should be a 'Configure/Add Aldor Nature' item (or similar).. add this, right-click on "filename" and click "Configure --> Enable Aldor builder". goto the menu "Project --> Properties" and set the "Aldor Location". then create an .as file in your project. |
To Use:
- Install the plug in (the 'aldor' project contains the 'Aldor' feature).
- Create a new project
- Do 'Configure/Enable Aldor Builder' from the project's context menu.
- Go to project properties and set the location of your aldor executable.
- Create a .as file and edit away. The file will be built every time you save the file.
- Use 'Run As...' on the context menu to execute an aldor program.
| File->New->Aldor->Aldor Project. |  |
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Compilation errors are displayed in the 'Problems' view. All aldor output (including errors) is sent to the console tab.
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| I entered this program which is the first from the Aldor sample programs: | 1 2 3 |
#include "aldor" double(n: Integer): Integer == n + n |
This gave the following errors in the console tab:
[AO] /home/martin/aldorbinary/bin/aldor -laldor=aldor-generated/ao/libaldor_test.al
-Fao=aldor-generated/ao/test.ao /home/martin/workspace/aldor/test.as
/home/martin/aldorbinary/bin/aldor -laldor=aldor-generated/ao/libaldor_test.al
-Fao=aldor-generated/ao/test.ao /home/martin/workspace/aldor/test.as
#1 (Warning) Could not use archive file `aldor-generated/ao/libaldor_test.al'.
#2 (Warning) Could not open file `aldor-generated/ao/libaldor_test.al'. |
No issues in the 'Problems' tab:
