32. Bigloo Development Environment

Bigloo release 2.0 or more recent contains an Integrated Development Environment. This environment proposes some services:

• Automatic Makefile creation and update.
• Code browsing.
• Revision control.
• Symbol debugging.
• Profiling.
• On-line documentation.
• Source code interpretation.
• Source code expansion.
• Literate programming.

The environment relies on Bigloo tools:

• bglafile: a Module access file generator (see section Module access file).
• bglmake: a Makefile creator.
• bgldepend: a that creates Bigloo dependencies in makefiles.
• bglpp: a pretty printer.
• bglprof: a profiler
• bgltags: a generator of tag file for Emacs.

Each of these tools comes with a dedicated manual page and are not described in this documentation.

Extra tools are required for the environment to go its full speed:

• Emacs version 21 (or more recent) (http://www.emacs.org/) or Xemacs version 20.4 (or more recent) (http://www.xemacs.org/).
• prcs version 1.2.1 or more recent (http://prcs.sourceforge.net/).
• gdb version 4.17 or more recent (http://www.cygnus.com/gdb/).
• gprof (ftp:/prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/).
• texinfo (ftp:/prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/).
• gmake (ftp:/prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/).

The following document describes the BEE, the Bigloo Emacs Environment.