Developing environments used for kernel development

Daniel. danielhilst at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 20:18:24 EST 2015


Hey Jeff, thanks for the reply, what I realy don't like in IDEs is tying
building and editing at same tool. I'm a simple guy so I like to keep
things simple. I never heard of anybody using IDE's for building C code in
linux.

I'm considering back to vim since emacs indenting is making me crazy

Regards

2015-12-22 17:59 GMT-02:00 Jeff Haran <Jeff.Haran at citrix.com>:
> Off list.
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> I use gvim, make, all the old style tools for kernel development and have
> been doing so for about 15 years now, but I am an old fart. Your boss
needs
> to understand that a lot of these IDEs, though useful for user space
> development, don’t help much in kernel space. When the kernel goes bad,
the
> IDE goes with it.
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> If he is uneducatable on this, you might want to check out this package
> called kdevelop. You can keep it running in one desktop to make him happy
> and then do the real work using the tried and true command line tools in
> another desktop.
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> Good luck,
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>
>
> Jeff Haran
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> From: kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org
> [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of Daniel.
> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 11:28 AM
> To: kernelnewbies
> Subject: Developing environments used for kernel development
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> My boss came to my desk today raiging that I should use more productive
> tools for developing. Well I don't want to begin an editor war but, yes, I
> use emacs. I used to use vim before but the integration of emacs and gdb
has
> caught my attention.
>
> To be clear, as "more productive tools" he understands graphical eye candy
> tools. My argument to use an "simple editor plus makefiles" was, it just
> works and thats it. So before to downloading eclipse just to make my
boss's
> eyes happy I've decided to make a little research.
>
> What you guys are using today to develope kenrel code?
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> Best Regards,
>
> - dhs
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> --
>
> "Do or do not. There is no try"
> Yoda Master

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