cc65WinForms
An IDE for C development using CC65
Overview
For some time I've been playing around with the wonderful CC65 8-bit compiler, but setting up a development environment to my liking has been a PITA. I use Visual Studio all day, so I wanted a similar development experience, i.e.:
- An editor with line numbers & C syntax colouring
- The ability to edit and save a file (Ctrl+S)
- Support for a Visual Studio-style solution file
- No fiddling with Make files !
- One-click building of a project (Ctrl+Shift+B)
- Launch the app (F5)
The issue is CC65 is fundamentally a command line tool. I've tried integrating it into Geany, Notepad++, Visual Studio Code & Visual Studio itself, but in all cases there were some jarring issues.
So in the best developer tradition I've built a simple WinForms CC65 IDE, in the style of Visual Studio.
It's currently a mainly a PoC, but I intend to extend it out to cover missing features over time.
N.B. I'd originally implemented this as a WPF app, see my cc65IDE repo, but WPF UI's are a PITA hence a WinForms version