Shankar Chakkere's GLOBAL Page

1. GLOBAL

I have ported the GLOBAL Version 4.5 source tag system to Win9x. I have tested it on Win98 DOS terminal.

The GLOBAL was ported using the DJGPP development system.
Here is the GLOBAL(file: glo45b.zip) binary package in DJGPP format.
Here is the GLOBAL(file: glo45s.zip) source files I used to compile.
Here is the GLOBAL Tutorial in PDF.
All the unix shell and utilities need for GLOBAL like grep, find, gnu-ID etc. are available at DJGPP
You need to define TMPDIR environment variable to point to your temporary directory. I have defined it as @set TMPDIR=c:\windows\temp;
You need set the PATH to point to global executables which will be in c:\djgpp\bin if you unzip the files as I mention below.

I unzip the files using pkunzip -d glo45X.zip *.* c:\djgpp command, which restore Directory structure stored in .zip file

Visit my Cscope page.

2. Using GLOBAL with windows VIM

Unfortunately the VIM port of windows does not have the GLOBAL patch applied.

Fortunately you can use VIM s grep system to work with GLOBAL. First set up vim to use GLOBAL instead of reqular grep program.

set grepprg=global\ -t
set grepformat=%m\^I%f\^I%l Where: ^I is TAB

You can add the above in your _vimrc file. Here is the above setup which you can append to your _vimrc file.

First, you have to execute gtags at the root of the source tree. Gtags traverse subdirectories and make four databases at the root of the source tree.

Second, start the vim / gvim

Usage:

To go to function dc_power_test

:grep dc_power_test

To go to functions which calls dc_power_test

:grep -r dc_power_test

To go to any symbols other than function

:grep -s piptest

To go to any strings other than symbols

:grep -g \#ifdef

To locate a function starting as power

:grep ^power*

To locate all functions in *.cpp

:grep -f *.cpp

Once the results are parsed, vim loads the first file which matches the criteria and jumps to the appropriate line. You can then use the :cnext :clist etc. command to see the other matches or to jump around.

Following is the partial list of quickfix command that can be used on the result. For complete detail type :help quickfix in your editor.

:cl -- list all the matches
:cn -- go to next match in the list
:cp -- go to previous match in the list
:cr -- rewind
:4cn -- go to fourth match from the current
:cc5 -- go to fifth match in the list

For more information on where to get VIM and to set it up on WINDOWS goto to my Cscope page.

Note: Set the PATH appropriately in AUTOEXEC.BAT to point to your DJGPP binaries. I had problems with sort command found in c:\windows\command directory, I had to rename it before everything started working in GVIM.