On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 04:40:02PM +0200, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm new user of Qt Creator, so please forgive me if the question here is > naive > -- I have tried searching around for an answer without really finding > anything > definitive. > > How can one go about adding support for new languages to Qt Creator? From > what > I have seen there is a fairly substantial collection of syntax highlighting > rulesets (all derived from Kate?), but these don't necessarily correspond to > support for things like auto-indentation and obviously don't offer support > for > build or debugging tools.
> The language I'm particularly interested in adding support for is D > <http://dlang.org>. There is already syntax support in place with a d.xml > that's taken from Kate (and dates from about 2 years ago). I'd like to be > able > to extend that with auto-indentation (and if possible autocompletion) > support, > and to be able to add support for compiling and [...] Syntax highlighting in Creator comes in three levels. Roughly speaking the "better" ones based on a "real" parser (used for C++, JS, GLSL, ...) and as a fallback there's a generic highlighting that understands Kate's syntax files, and finally the "no highlighting" state. For D you currently get the Kate fallback. To improve the situation you'd need to implement a real parser. > debugging D (it should be possible to do this with GDB and LLDB). Last time I looked the debugging info produced by some D compilers was pretty broken. E.g. DMD version 2.058 "encoded" the string[] type as "_Array_uns long long". It's hard to base proper debugging on such a foundation. > I know from the D language forums that about 3 years ago there was some > interest > in adding D support to Qt Creator, but so far as I can see this didn't go > beyond > the syntax highlighting file. There are occasional short visits of people interested in D support on IRC, but so far no indeed no permanent interest. > Qt Creator makes a great candidate for a light, fast and effective > cross-platform IDE which doesn't carry a huge baggage of dependencies, so I'd > really like to have good D support in it. Any advice on how to go about > doing > this would be really appreciated. As Orgad already pointed out, there's the Python plugin to have a look at. That shows most of the structure of a "language support plugin" but that does not have a real code model yet. Alternately, check the GLSL related bits, that's rather small and reasonably complete. For quick questions, #qt-creator at FreeNode IRC is a good choice during central European working hours. Andre' _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
