Contacts in Group Merlin32:
===========================

"Antoine Vignau" <rigreco.grc@gmail.com>
"Brendan Robert" <brendan.robert@gmail.com>
"Durant Pierre" <pierre.durant@gmail.com> on MacOS X
"Olivier Zardini" (author of Merlin32)
"Peter Dell" <Peter.Dell@web.de>
"Riccardo Greco" <antoine@brutaldeluxe>
"Steve Palm" <n9yty@n9yty.com>
 
TODOs in WUDSN IDE
==================
T0: Release yet unlisted video tutorial.
T1: Continue reading PDF.
    Status: Currently on p. 9.
T2: Complete analysis of supported instructions and opcodes.
    Status: Done.
T2: Complete creation of initial MERLIN32 compiler and registration via extension point.
    Status: Done. Except for the documentation, see requirement R1.
T2: Complete creation of initial reference source of all instructions and opcodes.
    Status: Done. All 3 CPU levels 6502, 65C02 and 65816 can be selected in the preferences now. Included in "Merlin2-Compiler.xml".
T3: Parse Error output
    Status: Requires requirement R4, see below.

------+------------------------------+-------------+----+---------+------+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------
 Line | # File                  Line | Line Type   | MX |  Reloc  | Size | Address   Object Code |  Source Code                                                      
------+------------------------------+-------------+----+---------+------+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------
    1 |  1 Merlin32-Example.s      1 | Empty       | ?? |         |   -1 | 00/FFFF               |                                  
    2 |  1 Merlin32-Example.s      2 | Unknown    | ?? |         |   -1 | 00/FFFF               |             absd                 
    3 |  1 Merlin32-Example.s      3 | Unknown    | ?? |         |   -1 | 00/FFFF               |             ower                 
    4 |  1 Merlin32-Example.s      4 | Unknown    | ?? |         |   -1 | 00/FFFF               |             12                   
------+------------------------------+-------------+----+---------+------+-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------
T4: Insert binary into DSK image.
    Status: Requires requirement R3, see below.
T5: Allow "_" as visual separator in % binary numbers
T6: Why is PUTBIN not recognized as binary include (context menu missing)
T7: Why is ** not recognized as comment line start?
T8: Detect hex numbers without prefix, HEX A8A8A8A8A8A8A8A8
T9: Implement parseLine

Questions towards MERIN32:
==========================


Requirements for smaller extensions in MERLIN32:
================================================
Download: http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/crossdevtools/merlin/

R1: PDF should be in Documentation folder of standard download, so it cab be opened from the IDE
R2: Output folder should be specifiable via command line option; that's a standard feature of the IDE 
R3: Output file name should be specifiable via commend line option, esp. because the file extension controls further processing like insertion into a DSK file
 => [Error] Unknown line '	absd' in source file 'Merlin32-Example.s' (line 2). File paths in error messages should be absolute, that's also important for other editors like UltraEdit, Notepad++
R4: Macros folder specification should be an optional parameter; if possible use use ${assemblerFolderPath}\Library as default.
    Aim of WUDSN IDE is that everything works with minimum configuration effort for the initial setup with the assemblers standard distribution..
    Alternative: IDE: have ${assemblerFolderPath} for ${assemblerFolderPath}\Library, so default parameter can be used.
    But that incurs quite some additional code & documentation I'd like to avoid.
R5: Quotes missing around file names are an issue to detecting the file name.

Other Issues:
=============

I1: Exception under Java 8 / Mac OS X
I se you don#t give up, that's good. I'm truely sorry but my job is killing me and my Atari time still.
Nullpointer during startup, hm.. Only a breakpoint at  org.eclipse.oomph.setup.ui.SetupUIPlugin.performStartup will tell what goes wrong there.
And sources for the Eclipse classes will be required.
This definitively screams for a screen sharing seesion since there's no way of getting up the same environment here.
 
- Peter.
 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 02. August 2016 um 11:49 Uhr

Finally I found the solution. INstall PDE as a new softawre in eclipse. So  I follow you video  but on 3:17, when I run the configurations, I receive a message and the new eclipse IDE opened as an empty « package explorer »
here is the message:
 
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: ignoring option MaxPermSize=128m; support was removed in 8.0
!SESSION 2016-08-02 11:43:59.573 -----------------------------------------------
eclipse.buildId=4.6.0.I20160606-1100
java.version=1.8.0_25
java.vendor=Oracle Corporation
BootLoader constants: OS=macosx, ARCH=x86_64, WS=cocoa, NL=en_US
Framework arguments:  -product org.eclipse.platform.ide
Command-line arguments:  -product org.eclipse.platform.ide -data /Users/pierredurant/Documents/Eclipse_Projects/../runtime-WUDSN-IDE -dev file:/Users/pierredurant/Documents/Eclipse_Projects/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.pde.core/WUDSN-IDE/dev.properties -os macosx -ws cocoa -arch x86_64 -consoleLog
 
!ENTRY org.eclipse.core.net 1 0 2016-08-02 11:44:08.209
!MESSAGE System property http.nonProxyHosts has been set to local|*.local|169.254/16|*.169.254/16 by an external source. This value will be overwritten using the values from the preferences
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
SLF4J: Found binding in [bundleresource://489.fwk1532756055:1/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [bundleresource://489.fwk1532756055:2/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [ch.qos.logback.classic.util.ContextSelectorStaticBinder]
11:44:13.186 [Worker-4] INFO  c.g.t.t.d.PublishedGradleVersions - Gradle version information cache is up-to-date. Trying to read.
 
!ENTRY org.eclipse.oomph.setup.ui 2 0 2016-08-02 11:44:15.722
!MESSAGE java.lang.NullPointerException
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.eclipse.oomph.setup.ui.SetupUIPlugin.performStartup(SetupUIPlugin.java:379)
at org.eclipse.oomph.setup.ui.SetupUIPlugin.access$4(SetupUIPlugin.java:350)
at org.eclipse.oomph.setup.ui.SetupUIPlugin$1$1.run(SetupUIPlugin.java:247)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)
 
---
Q4: Tells the assembler to ignore the rest of the source code (including Labels). => In this or in ally files (i.e. end assembly)
Q5: Ignored means they are recgonized correctly?
     "commands which are not supported are the ones linked to the Merlin 16+ editor, the interaction during assembly or the formatting of the listing :
AST : send a line of ASTerisks
CYC : calcule and print CYCle times for the code
DAT : DATe stamp assembly listing
EXP : macro EXPand control
KBD : define label from KeyBoarD
LST : LiSTing control
LSTDO : LiSTDO OFF areas of code
PAG : new PAGe
PAU : PAUse
SW : SWeet 16 opcodes
TTL : define TiTLe heading
SKP : SKiP lines
TR : TRuncate control
EXD : define a label as Direct Page EXternal to the current REL Segment. You can use EXT instead of EXD.

And what is "ANOP, XC, LONGA, LONGI?

char *directive_list[] = 
{
  "ANOP","ORG","PUT","PUTBIN",         /* PUTBIN n'existe pas dans Merlin 16+ */
  "START","END",
  "DUM","DEND",
  "MX","XC","LONGA","LONGI",
  "USE","USING",
  "REL","DSK","LNK","SAV",
  "TYP",
  "IF","DO","ELSE","FIN",
  "LUP","--^",
  "ERR","DAT",
  "AST","CYC","EXP","LST","LSTDO","PAG","TTL","SKP","TR","KBD","PAU","SW","USR",   /* On ne fait rien avec ces Directives */
  NULL
};

