Development with GCC and Eclipse

[Jan Lundskov]

Hi Vidar, I am planning to start devlopment on the nRF52 and I would like to use GCC ARM with Eclipse. After having read your post "Development with GCC and Eclipse" and seeing all the comments regarding errors/issues etc. I don't feel very comfortable starting this process.

Now that you have developed these nice nRF51/52 IC's with softdevices etc, then it makes no sense that it should be so complicated to start writing code in an IDE.

Is there any chance that you will write a post describing how to make Eclipse Managed projects instead? Or somehow make the process of getting the GCC/Eclipse system up and running more simple.

Thanks in advance.

[endnode]

Ahoj Jene, I've personally never followed any Nordic example on GCC + Eclipse but I was setting it manually several times and I wouldn't describe it as difficult or complicated. Although I'm using cygwin for compilation and I don't use debugger (it's arguable if it is usable at all with systems running some "real time" scheduled operation such as BLE stack with adv. or con. intervals). What do you exactly expect? To have one installation binary which will install everything and you will just press some button to compile/load/debug? Then use Keil, it works almost like that with their MDK... (I guess Keil and Eclipse are running competition who will develop worse IDE but that's another discussion;).

Cheers Jan