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.

[Johannes Lorenz]

Hi Jene, I had to move from Keil uVision Free Edition to Eclipse arm-gcc. I had some struggles and i needed 3 days for the whole change. My environment now is Eclipse Neon, arm-gcc ver. 5.4, J-Link ver. 6.12 with the armgcc plugin running under OSX Sierra. The biggest hurdle was to get gdb running. But this was because in my Makefile there was an option -flto, which hindered gdb the disassemble code from the backend. But now everything is working, I am happy that i did the move. HTH Johannes