# ebe - Integrated Development Environment

Ebe is an integrated development designed to support Assembly Language. After teaching assembly language one semester where the students and I depended on using gdb for debugging, I wanted a better solution. I tried ddd and a few IDEs, but they all suffered from the fact that yasm doesn't provide data type information to gdb. I started trying to write a debugger in python and decided dbe was a nice name for a debugger. Since dbe had a source code window which supported nearly all that was needed in an editor, it became apparent that dbe was almost a development environment. So I decided to expand it to be an IDE and I had to pick a name for a development environment. The name ebe was too hard to resist since it already means extraterrestrial biological entity. But just to satisfy my sense of fairness, I can claim that is stands for easy beginner environment. This also explains the alien icon. I drew the alien icon based on what I have read of little green men. I hope I haven't made an icon too much like something someone has trademarked.

## What can ebe do?

In a nutshell ebe supports program development in C, C++, Fortran and Assembly. It was designed to support Assembly and I needed to be able to build programs with C functions, so C and C++ were important. Adding Fortran was easy, so why not? The Qt version of ebe runs on Linux, OS X and Windows.

## How do you get ebe?

You can get ebe from http://qtebe.sourceforge.net. There are installation packages for Ubuntu, Slackware and Windows. At this time support for OS X consists of instructions on how to download the source code and compile ebe.

## How do you get help with ebe?

There is a tutorial which should be enough to get started. There are also tooltips and help inside the program. Looking through the menus will give some ideas and will show some keyboard shortcuts.

## How do you report problems with ebe?

You can use the ticket system on the ebe sourceforge site to report problems with ebe. You can also email me as ray.seyfarth@gmail.com.