Tutorials

The Zeus IDE by it's design is a highly configurable, language neutral IDE and while this allows it to be used for many different programming languages, it can also make the IDE appear overly complex and hard to configure.

In reality the configuration process is fairly straightforward and with some practice it quickly becomes second nature. To help with this learning process the tutorials below cover different aspects of how to configure the IDE.

General Topics

Zeus Configuration Model

The Zeus configuration model attaches settings based on a group of file extensions using a concept of a document type and this tutorial gives an overview of how that configuration model works.

Example of Creating a Document Type

This tutorial walks through the process of creating a document type.

Windows System PATH Environment Variable

Zeus is designed to make it easy to run tools from inside the IDE and have it capture the output. However, for this to work the tool need to be located in the system PATH and this tutorial describes the steps needed to manage the PATH environment variable.

Using Which to Search the PATH Environment Variable

This tutorial shows how the Which tool can be used to help debug PATH environment variable issues.

Using the Zeus IDE on Linux

The Zeus IDE can be run on Linux using Wine and this tutorial shows how this is done.

Language Topics

The links below describe how to configure the Zeus IDE to work with many of the more popular programming languages.

C# Language

C# Tutorial

This tutorial describes using the tool for C# development.

C/C++ Languages

MinGW C/C++ Compilers

This tutorial describes setting up the MinGW C/C++ compilers.

TDM-GCC C/C++ Compilers

This tutorial describes setting up the TDM-GCC C/C++ compilers.

Microsoft C/C++ Compilers

This tutorial describes setting up the Microsoft C/C++ compilers.

COBOL Language

Acucorp COBOL Compiler

This tutorial describes setting up the Acucorp COBOL compiler.

GNU COBOL Compiler

This tutorial describes setting up the GNU COBOL compiler.

D Language

D Compiler

This tutorial describes setting up the D compiler.

Fortran Language

Fortran MinGW Compiler

This tutorial describes setting up the Fortran MinGW compiler.

Go Language

Go Compiler

This tutorial describes setting up the Go compiler.

Go Build

This tutorial describes setting up Go Build tool.

Google App Engine Autocomplete

This tutorial describes setting up autocomplete for Google App Engine.

Java Language

Java JDK Compiler

This tutorial describes setting up the Java JDK compiler.

Lua Language

Lua Environment

This tutorial describes setting up a development environment for the Lua interpreter.

Python Language

Python Environment

This tutorial describes setting up a development environment for the Python interpreter.

Rust Language

Rust Compiler

This tutorial describes setting up the Rust compiler.

Rust Racer Autocomplete

This tutorial describes setting up autocomplete using Rust Racer.



Latest Version: Zeus 3.99b
Released: 29th January 2024