Development with GCC and Eclipse

RE: Development with GCC and Eclipse

endnode — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 20:29:07 GMT

This should be the right link and yes, SES aka SEGGER Embedded Studio seems to be still alive and supported.

devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../

RE: Development with GCC and Eclipse

MikeLemon — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 18:11:24 GMT

Hi Michael tried to enter the link but it's broken..

Is this project still alive?

RE: Development with GCC and Eclipse

hedoluna — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:09:13 GMT

Yes, free for evaluation or academic/educational purposes.

RE: Development with GCC and Eclipse

Evgeny Erlihman — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 20:21:12 GMT

Is it still free?

RE: Development with GCC and Eclipse

endnode — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 18:35:36 GMT

Glad to hear that! It was not evident that you are setting up a MAC not Windows PC;) It looks pretty straight forward to me on Win up to GDB, that might take one or two days. But I never regret using GCC instead of Keil or IAR (not only because of cost but also because of portability between systems and teams/developers, that sometimes matters even more than few hundreds bytes of code size saved by more optimized STD lib and compiler/linker... sometimes not and then we need to buy the license and do the final build in something different).

RE: Development with GCC and Eclipse

Johannes Lorenz — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 12:16:28 GMT

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

RE: Development with GCC and Eclipse

Jan Lundskov — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 12:43:14 GMT

Thanks for the link. It looks very interesting from my perspective, since I haven't worked with command lines, makefiles etc. I will take a look at the Segger Embedded Studio IDE and try to run some examples.

RE: Development with GCC and Eclipse

Michael Dietz — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 12:16:23 GMT

please comment on the blog post if you like this IDE, we are collecting feedback

RE: Development with GCC and Eclipse

Michael Dietz — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 12:15:40 GMT

devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../

Take a look at the above link. This IDE is much easier to use and set up than eclipse and has much better debugging. It uses the GCC compiler and is free with no limitations for evaluation. It works on Windows, mac osx, linux

RE: Development with GCC and Eclipse

Vidar Berg — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:01:04 GMT

Hi Jan, agree that the number of comments does not look very promising, but it's hopefully largely due to the fact that the post is quite popular. My advise is to make sure to follow the instructions closely, and start to simple by importing one of the attached examples. Previous experience with GCC and Makefiles is also beneficial.

In my experience it's not any easier or harder to create an Eclipse managed project, but you won't be using the existing Makefiles included in the SDK. To make this process more simple I think the only option is that we would have a pre-configured Eclipse setup that we could distribute, but at this is not something we have at the moment.

With that being said, if you want an IDE that works "out of the box", Keil is the way to go as @endnode mentioned.

RE: Development with GCC and Eclipse

endnode — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:16:45 GMT

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