PropellerIDE is an easy-to-use, cross-platform development tool for the Parallax Propeller microcontroller.

Write Spin code, download programs to your Propeller board, and debug your applications with the built-in serial terminal.

PropellerIDE is written in C++ with Qt.

• Download PropellerIDE

• Spin syntax highlighting, auto-complete, code suggestion, and auto-indent
• Unicode editing support
• Auto-detection of connected Propeller hardware
• Collapsible sidebar with function and program views
• Integrated serial terminal
• Customizable theming
• Slick browser-style tab controls
• Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Raspberry Pi!

• Improve overall code maintainability
• Refactor components for better separation of concerns
• Refactor widgets to use UI forms
• Auto-select newly attached serial devices

• Translation support
• Multiple Propeller languages: PropBASIC, C
• Serial and wireless code download
• New platforms: Android, ChromeBook, HTML5, iOS

• PropTool-style View Info widget
• Alt-Drag to select text blocks
• Colorful serial console formatting
• Indent guides
• More Propeller documentation

• Separate packaging tools from PropellerIDE repo and make standalone packaging toolchain
• Clean up compiler output and add directory support
• Integrated web help

• PropellerIDE requires at least Qt5.2.
• Windows packaging requires Inno Setup 5 with preprocessor support.
• Build and release tools require Python 2.7.

Type make help to see a list of available package targets.

$ make help
Usage:    make [TYPE]

Enter target type to build. Options:

   checkout     initialize child repositories

   win          windows installer
   mac          mac bundle
   deb          debian package
   rpi          debian package for Raspberry Pi

   no parameter builds only the binaries

These instructions assume that you are building on an Ubuntu variant.

There is a bug in QSerialPortInfo that results in a memory leak in Qt5.2.1 on POSIX systems. You will need a minimum of Qt5.3 which is only available on Ubuntu as of 14.10.

Add the Utopic Unicorn sources to your /etc/apt/sources.list if you are on 14.04 or earlier.

deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu utopic main 

Run an update to ensure your apt repositories are up-to-date.

sudo apt-get update

Install the required dependencies.

sudo apt-get install git make g++ qt5-default libqt5serialport5 zlib1g-dev libudev-dev

Checkout the project.

git clone https://github.com/lamestation/PropellerIDE.git PropellerIDE
cd PropellerIDE

Type make deb in the project root to build a Debian package.

make deb

Type make clean to remove old build files.

make clean

PropellerIDE is known to build on Ubuntu as far back as 12.04.

PropellerIDE on Windows is built using the Qt5 MinGW distribution from Qt's website:

• http://qt-project.org/downloads

For development, the easiest way to get started building the project is through QtCreator. Open the src/src.pro file as a project in the editor and build. Shadowed builds are not currently supported.

PropellerIDE can also be built from the Windows PowerShell. This is how release builds and installers are produced. You will need to set the system path correctly.

C:\Qt\Tools\mingw482_32\bin;C:\Qt\5.3\mingw482_32\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Inno Setup 5

Open the PowerShell. The make command on Windows is mingw32-make.exe. Add the win parameter to build a Windows installer.

mingw32-make.exe win

PropellerIDE has been built on Windows 7 and 8.

Note: QtCreator and command-line builds generate build files that are incompatible with each other, so you will need to call make distclean in the src/ directory before you can switch from one to the other.

Install XCode through the App Store, then install the command-line tools through the terminal.

xcode-select --install

Type make mac to create an app bundle and DMG package for distribution.

make mac

The Qt version used must match the XCode version. The easiest solution is to use the latest version of xcode and Qt.

Qt5 is not available in the standard repository, but you can obtain it from Debian backports.

Add the following entries to /etc/apt/sources.list.

deb http://twolife.be/raspbian/ wheezy main backports
deb-src http://twolife.be/raspbian/ wheezy main backports

Add the repository key.

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key 2578B775

Update and install Qt5 and its dependencies.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install qt5-default qt5-qmake libegl1-mesa libgles2-mesa

Finally, use the build the rpi target to create a Debian package for Raspberry Pi.

make rpi

Use the clean on all platforms to clean up old build files.

All build targets output packages in the staging/ directory.

And install:

sudo dpkg -i staging/*armhf.deb

Developed by LameStation LLC ([email protected]) in collaboration with Parallax Inc.

Originally developed by Steve Denson, Dennis Gately, and Roy Eltham.