2.3 The Development Environments

See the appropriate manuals for more details. These environments will store a number of settings in the project itself, when they are meant to be shared by the whole team working on the project. Here are the attributes defined in the package IDE in projects.

Remote_Host

This is a simple attribute. Its value is a string that designates the remote host in a cross-compilation environment, to be used for remote compilation and debugging. This field should not be specified when running on the local machine.

Program_Host

This is a simple attribute. Its value is a string that specifies the name of IP address of the embedded target in a cross-compilation environment, on which the program should execute.

Communication_Protocol

This is a simple string attribute. Its value is the name of the protocol to use to communicate with the target in a cross-compilation environment, e.g. "wtx" or "vxworks".

Compiler_Command

This is an associative array attribute, whose domain is a language name. Its value is string that denotes the command to be used to invoke the compiler. The value of Compiler_Command ("Ada") is expected to be compatible with gnatmake, in particular in the handling of switches.

Debugger_Command

This is simple attribute, Its value is a string that specifies the name of the debugger to be used, such as gdb, powerpc-wrs-vxworks-gdb or gdb-4.

Default_Switches

This is an associative array attribute. Its indexes are the name of the external tools that the GNAT Programming System (GPS) is supporting. Its value is a list of switches to use when invoking that tool.

Gnatlist

This is a simple attribute. Its value is a string that specifies the name of the gnatls utility to be used to retrieve information about the predefined path; e.g., "gnatls", "powerpc-wrs-vxworks-gnatls".

VCS_Kind

This is a simple attribute. Its value is a string used to specify the Version Control System (VCS) to be used for this project, e.g. CVS, RCS ClearCase or Perforce.

Gnat

This is a simple attribute. Its value is a string that specifies the name of the gnat utility to be used when executing various tools from GPS, in particular "gnat pp", "gnat stub",…

VCS_File_Check

This is a simple attribute. Its value is a string that specifies the command used by the VCS to check the validity of a file, either when the user explicitly asks for a check, or as a sanity check before doing the check-in.

VCS_Log_Check

This is a simple attribute. Its value is a string that specifies the command used by the VCS to check the validity of a log file.

VCS_Repository_Root

The VCS repository root path. This is used to create tags or branches of the repository. For subversion the value should be the URL as specified to check-out the working copy of the repository.

VCS_Patch_Root

The local root directory to use for building patch file. All patch chunks will be relative to this path. The root project directory is used if this value is not defined.