WELCOME This is Harbour's IDE - integrated development environment - centric, ready-to-use distibution.
You can download it from http://www.vouch.info/downloads/harbour_dev_setup.exe This distro is comprised of following parts: 1. Harbour binaries for mingw and bcc. harbour/bin/* harbour/include/* harbour/lib bcc/* mingw/* harbour/doc/* harbour/contrib/gtwvg/tests/* harbour/contrib/hbqt/tests/* /contrib/hbqt/doc/* harbour/contrib/hbxbp/tests/* harbour/tests/* 2. Mingw C compiler. 3. hbIDE. 4. Qt's minimum runtime required to link and execute a hbQT based application. 5. Environment This distro also provides building-blocks to experment with hbQT implementation. It is particularly useful to Xbase++ developers who are looking for alternatives. Run the installer, and if possible, follow the default folder - C:\harbour_dev. It is not mandatory, just a suggession to keep the structure simple enough to recognize. You can change the drive as you wish, and even root folder, but follow above advice if possible. After installation is complete, you will have an entry into the programs folder and also a desktop icon if you did opted for it. Click any one or at the end of installation opt for "Run..." hbIDE's welcome screen should popup in front of you. To start anything significant, please follow few simple steps, only once, to setup your environment. 1. Copy {app}env\hbide.env and paste it somewhere. 2. Open pasted copy and change [ MINGW ] {content} set IDE_INSTALL=C:\harbour_dev to [ MINGW ] {content} set IDE_INSTALL=C:\somefolder\harbour_dev assuming you have installed the setup in C:\somefolder\harbour_dev instead of its default location. 3. Run hbIDE. 4. Click "Compiler Environment" icon on the right toolbar and provide the path_to_modified_hbide.env in "Path to hbIDE env:" field. 5. The contents of this file must show-up. 6. Click "Save and Close" button. 7. That's it. You are ready to build a project. Let's warm-up with an existing project before starting some serious work. 1. From <Files> menu select "Open a Project". 2. File open dialog will showup. Navigate to C:\harbour_dev\contrib\gtwvg\tests, and select demowvg.hbp. 3. Project will appear in "Projects" tree window at the left. 4. Right-click on the project name node - Demo WVG - and from "Select an Environment" menu option select "MINGW". 5. Again right-click on the project name node and select "Build and Launch" 6. There you go, if everything is ok, project must build and you must see demowvg.exe running. 7. Off course you will not see all the images on the screen, because we have not instructed this project to "Start in:" proper place, but WVG console must appear. 8. Quickly add other projects - Demo WVG_XBP. 9. You can also play with demoXBP and demoQT but for this to happen, you will need to provide either _path_to_qt_dlls_ as global path which should be visible to hbIDE or copy {app}\harbour_dev\Qt\4.6.2\lib\*.dll to Windows system32 folder or copy in the folder where demoxbp.exe is residing. A html compiled help file hbIDE.chm and the same in PDF format hbIDE.pdf is also included in the distro. Examine them. These are exactly the same help which you can find online at http://hbide.vouch.info/ hbIDE is now mature enough to handle any large project, but still, please note that this is not an official release, so you may expect bumps here-and-there. This distribution includes only binaries. Please download SVN tree if you need sources or want to play with the latest commits. It is not necessary for your applications. PROCESS ADOPTED BEFORE BUILDING THIS PACKAGE - Updated Harbour Sources from SVN - Build Harbour Binaries for above Compilers - Compiled and Executed demowvg.prg - Bundled the Package - Uploaded to my site - Downloaded the package on another computer - Run the Installer - Compiled and Executed demowvg.prg for each compiler Enjoy Pritpal Bedi | a student of software analysis and design http://www.vouch.in | Vouch, the software that GROWS with you http://www.vouch32.com | Home of Vouch32 ActiveX Server ( FREE ) http://www.vouchcac.com/vouch32/vouch32.htm | A Windows Extended Utilities Library for Clipper, Xbase++ and (x)Harbour ( FREE ) http://hbide.vouch.info | hbIDE explained. ----- enjoy hbIDEing... Pritpal Bedi http://hbide.vouch.info/ -- View this message in context: http://harbour-devel.1590103.n2.nabble.com/Harbour-Ready-to-Use-Distro-with-IDE-tp5127286p5127286.html Sent from the harbour-devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
