x86 Notepad++ plugin for IBM i development

IBMiCmd (maybe referenced as IBMiCmds) is a Notepad++ plugin for ILE development on an IBM i. IBMiCmd provides the ability to submit system commands remotely, as well as tools to parse an error listing (EVFEVENT file).

• Command entry
• System bindings (a group of system commands to submit on one job - primarily for compiling)
• Error listing for ILE compiles (read from the EVFEVENT file)
• Ability to convert fixed-format definitions and calculations to free-format
• Integrates with Relic to submit project buikds.

• For a list of source members or an IFS listing, a plugin named NppFTP is required. It is usually shipped with Notepad++, but if you don't have it: you can find it in the plugin manager within Notepad++. The connection you setup within NppFTP is seperate from the connection(s) you setup for IBMiCmd - make sure that both system connections and the same. When you have this plugin installed, you should configure a connection to the system you will develop on and also set the Transfer Mode to 'ASCII'.
• C, C++ and COBOL highlighting is available in Notepad++ by default. To add free-format RPG highlighting, you will need to manually add the syntax highlighting which can be found in this repository.

1. See the releases for IBMiCmd and download the latest version available.
2. Drop the .dll into the Notepad++ plugins folder.

I had an issue building with VS 2017 which was related to the location of the lib.exe program on Windows. The location is defined in DllExport\NppPlugin.DllExport.targets.

I had to find it within my VS installation directory and the diff from VS 2015 to VS 2017 is below.

-                   LibToolPath="$(DevEnvDir)\..\..\VC\bin"
-                   LibToolDllPath="$(DevEnvDir)"
+                   LibToolPath="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.10.25017\bin\HostX86\x86"
+                   LibToolDllPath="C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.10.25017\bin\HostX86\x86"