GCC is available for Windows and works quite nicely under 95/98/NT with the
PalmOS emulator (that allows you to emulate Palm devices on your PC,
Macintosh or Unix box). The GCC port for PalmOS is fully featured and
includes a command line source code debugger and should be used in
conjunction with 'PilRC' which is a very nice script-based open source
resource compiler for the Palm platform. Many people have developed quality
applications using GCC.
There are commercial solutions (Metrowerks Codewarrior for PalmOS is
available for the PC and Macintosh). However in my opinion GCC is an
excellent place to start because of course it costs you nothing (well some
Internet time) to download these free open source tools. Also in my
experience the quality and usefulness of GCC outweighs the buggy and
problematic IDE and debugger provided by Metrowerks (to be fair I am
currently using an older version of CodeWarrior for PalmOS, later versions
may have improved?).
GCC is also fully supported by Palm these days so there will be up-to-date
versions of the PalmOS SDK that will work with it.
Look on the http://www.palmos.com site under developers / tools for
downloads.
My 2c.
PS: There are also other options: ASDK for assembler PalmOS programming, I
believe there are also various flavours of Java and Basic languages
available for PalmOS dev?
Stuart Nicholson
Programmer
Firepad Inc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Chartier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 9:55 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Opinions..
I was wondering if someone could share a bit of experience with me. Im a
newbie in the Palm Dev world, and basically was looking around for a way in
which I can begin developing applications. Are there any Freeware
compilers? Ive seen GCC, is this available for Win32 (W2k)? Are there any
others? Which is the best? What about editors. Currently I use ultraedit
for most of my programming, anyone else working with this for development
in this area? Any comments/feedback?
thanks for any replies.
(hopefully this wont start a religious debate)
Robert Chartier
Author, AspFree.com
604-975-5590
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.aspfree.com/devlinks
http://www.aspfree.com/authors/robert
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