By Matthew Scarpino
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 in this series have presented the Cell SDK’s tools for building, debugging, and simulating applications. In each case, the usage examples involve the command line: statements, flags, and scripts. This last part in the series covers much of the same territory, but with a single graphical tool: the Cell SDK’s integrated development environment, or the Cell IDE.
At the time of the completion of the book, the Cell IDE runs only on Linux. It’s possible to run the IDE on a Cell system, but the IDE is Java based and resource hungry. The Cell’s PPU isn’t up to the task of rendering the GUI, so I recommend running the IDE on a general-purpose processor. Further, the operating system must have a suitable Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed.The GNU port for Java, GCJ, isn’t sufficient.
