How to setup an nRF51822 Development Environment on with IDE Mac OS X?

RE: How to setup an nRF51822 Development Environment on with IDE Mac OS X?

Bee — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 02:48:21 GMT

Wooh! The detialed tutorial has really shocked me. I'll try it. Thanks a lot!

RE: How to setup an nRF51822 Development Environment on with IDE Mac OS X?

Mohammad Afaneh — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 20:35:28 GMT

I've recently written a comprehensive blog post/tutorial on how to set up your development environment for nRF52 on a Mac. The IDE I used is NetBeans. I know, you're probably thinking "NetBeans for embedded development??" :) but I've been using it for over 10 years now for embedded development and with the proper configuration and setup I've found that it works better than Eclipse and other IDEs!

I also go through setting it up for live debugging on the target.

Here's a link to the post (current as of June, 2017).

The complete nRF52 Mac development and debugging step-by-step tutorial

Hope you find it useful.

RE: How to setup an nRF51822 Development Environment on with IDE Mac OS X?

Raphael — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 20:56:33 GMT

I went with Eclipse first and am now evaluating SEGGER Embedded Studio.

I must say that I prefer Eclipse on the one hand since it is the future and I find it much easier to use than all those proprietary things that often remind of the 1990ies. Getting the GNU Debugger to work with Eclipse was quite some pain though and took me a lot of time. If am thinking of offering commercial support just for getting nRF51 / nRF52 to run with Eclipse, GCC, GDB.

Once you got it working, Eclipse seems like a decent choice for me, especially if you are already familiar with it (I used it already years ago for Java dev during my computer science program and in other jobs) or plan to code in more languages where you usually can work with Eclipse since there is hardly any technology nowadays that is not supported by it. Quite a few other companies are also building their proprietary IDEs on Eclipse now, so this is good if you want to be flexible.

I will write more once I have properly tested Embedded Studio because I really do like the idea of SEGGER offering a proper package including all their tools and the SEGGER tools seem really good to me (only started dev with nRF51 and Cortex-M a few months ago). It's kind of sad to see that SEGGER and Rowley do not base their toolchain on Eclipse like IAR is recognizing that Eclipse is the best IDE, which only lacks the proper and commercially supported plugins.

RE: How to setup an nRF51822 Development Environment on with IDE Mac OS X?

Bee — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:04:27 GMT

Thanks for your answer. I'm trying.

RE: How to setup an nRF51822 Development Environment on with IDE Mac OS X?

Bee — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:03:02 GMT

Thank you. You let me know there is a SEGGER Embedded Studio can be used. It's just what I want. But I don't know if I use SES, how can I download the S110 to the chip without nRFgo?

RE: How to setup an nRF51822 Development Environment on with IDE Mac OS X?

Øyvind Karlsen — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 08:17:12 GMT

Hi,

Here are a couple of links to tutorials and blogs on the matter (some might be dated):

Hopefully this will give some more information on the matter. Best regards,

Øyvind

RE: How to setup an nRF51822 Development Environment on with IDE Mac OS X?

Vidar Berg — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 07:49:32 GMT

Did you see the "Development with GCC and Eclipse" tutorial which uses Eclipse Mars? However, I believe it's easier to get started with Segger studio unless you prefer Eclipse.