ProjectCenter

[ Introduction | State | Documentation | Download ProjectCenter | Related links ]

Introduction

ProjectCenter is GNUstep's integrated development environment (IDE) and allows a rapid development and easy managment of

ProjectCenter running on GNUstep
applications, tools and frameworks.

Supporting the project types 'Application', 'Bundle', 'Library', 'Tool', and 'Aggregate', ProjectCenter automatically creates the project makefiles and aids you in the process of editing, project compilation, package building and debugging. In the future, built-in CVS support will be available, too.

ProjectCenter is inspired by NeXT's original Project Builder and is the equivalent of XCode. It assists you in starting new projects and lets you manage your project files using a intuitive and well ordered graphical user interface. ProjectCenter, differently from current Apple XCode, does create directly makefiles which can be built form the command line or by an automated tool. This is very convenient also for packagers and build farms since the requisite to build the project is only gnustep-make and not PC itself.

Serg Stoyan (stoyan255 at ukr dot net) is the current maintainer of ProjectCenter. Please contact him if you would like volunteer to improve ProjectCenter, report bugs on the standard bug tracker. The original author of ProjectCenter, Philippe C.D. Robert, no longer actively contributes to the application.

Over a decade ago, NeXT Computer Inc. revolutionized application development by making two great developer tools available for their operation system OPENSTEP: Project Builder and Interface Builder. These applications made application development much easier and faster and took NeXT ahead of the other computer manufacturers and operating system vendors. GNUstep continues in this tradition by offering ProjectCenter and Gorm.


State

ProjectCenter is a fully application, although it is still evolving. Project creation and management is fully supported.
Work is concentrating on debugging support, improving the editor (0.6 series supports undoing, improved syntax and parentheses highlighting and editor detaching) and resource and language management.

Documentation

For installation help, please refer to the INSTALL file included in the ProjectCenter package.

For a basic tutorial on GNUstep development, with Gorm and ProjectCenter, you should read Pierre-Yves Rivaille's tutorial on Gorm and ProjectCenter.

Download ProjectCenter

The last offically released version is available, which you can download here.

Related Links

GNUstep Tutorials on Makefiles, base and gui programming and more.