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

[endnode]

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).

[Evgeny Erlihman]

Is it still free?

[hedoluna]

Yes, free for evaluation or academic/educational purposes.

[MikeLemon]

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

Is this project still alive?