Hello,
I have written makefiles in the past. However, I'd like to be able to
build my projects on several platforms. From what I hear the autotools
require you to read tons and tons of documentation.
autotools != Makefile
I dislike autotools. I write makefiles by hand. Not Makefile.am
files, but actual Makefiles.
Oops... What I wrote there does look a tad confusing indeed :)
The autotools sentence should've been added to my paragraph about the
build tools.
Most of these plugins come with a function to toggle/show whatever UI
you want. It's a vimrc one-liner to bind it to a key. i.e. doing
something like this:
http://phraktured.net/screenshots/ss-20060427211348.png
is two keypresses (except the help screen). That screenshot is just
an "omg look at all the crap" screenshot. I actually used it to help
someone further describe what an "IDE" means to them (I get into
conversations like this alot).
As for build systems, there's alot of the integrated into vim. :make
doesn't necessarilly call "make" - it uses makeprg (set via the
'compiler' option). You can use this to easilly expand to whatever
build system you want - there's alot already there and on vim.org.
I know it's not *that* much work. But I know that when I start messing
around with such things, I'll end up tweaking it for days on end. I was
hoping someone would reply and say "go to this website and download that
nicely set up Vim 'IDE' configuration" :)
Now, rant time. A fully "cross platform" build system is a fallacy.
I'm actually starting to think that you are absolutely correct. If I had
more time, I'd probably try to prove us wrong, but that'll never happen :)
Perhaps I can still use Jam as an easier and faster make (if it is
indeed as fast as that article claims).
Regards,
Brecht
