[asterisk-dev] Setting up a development environment for Asterisk

[Nick Khamis]

Thank you Kevin and Chris for your responses,
I saw that a C perspective is needed for modules to, for example,
be aware of where to locate the headers in the ``include'' module.
As you mentioned Chris, I really think developers that are unfamiliar with
the asterisk source code can greatly benefit from some of the things
offered by and IDE such as auto complete etc...
I will be happy to share my findings on here.

Thanks Again,

Nick.


On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Chris Tooley <chris at tooley.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com>
> wrote:
> > On 01/11/2011 07:55 AM, Nick Khamis wrote:
> >
> >> Thank you for your response, vim, emacs... That kind of stuff puts hair
> >> on your
> >> chest ;). I checked out the code using subclipse, maybe I will try to
> >> strip it down
> >> to the core classes, compile and run it within eclipse, and then keep
> >> appending
> >> code, basically building an eclipse project. Any help would be
> >> appreciated. Are
> >> there any documentation architectural/package/class diagrams etc.., I
> know
> >> it's a large project, and I have had to do this many time before.
> >
> > Asterisk is primarily written in C, so there aren't any 'core classes' in
> > the sense that an IDE would understand. There are some conceptual
> diagrams
> > of how modules work together and how channel drivers work, but there is
> not
> > a great deal of architectural documentation, unfortunately.
>
> Asterisk will build and run inside Eclipse (or used to) but I haven't
> done it in several years. As Kevin says, since it's C there's not a
> class hierarchy like you would get with a Java project, but the C
> perspective can be set up to find all of the definitions. Once it's
> all set up and configured, it's actually pretty handy for development,
> but running it in the debugger is pretty challenging as the highly
> multi-threaded nature of Asterisk doesn't lend itself well to
> Eclipse's debugger interface.
> >
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