Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

awneil — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 10:48:43 GMT

Could you be more specific as to why you recommend it:

what are its particular strengths?
any weaknesses?
how does it compare to the others?

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

dan_cuspi — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 23:00:27 GMT

any news about it?

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

clod — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 14:45:46 GMT

As for me I use and recommend CodeLobster IDE - http://www.codelobster.com

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

Sigurd — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 07:55:37 GMT

Hi Antonio,

It seems like the license server is currently offline. We are working on getting it online again.

EDIT: The license server should now be back online again.

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

Antonio — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 01:17:29 GMT

Hi @Sigurd,

The link "license.segger.com/Nordic.cgi" is broken. And also I downloaded SES version 3.4 and the screen now is the following.

Any hints?

Thanks!

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

Luis — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 09:04:42 GMT

Hello Roger, did you test SES already? I am also a big fan of Eclipse and would love to know your experience about SES and if you see any advantage vs Eclipse development. Thank you!

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

Roger Clark — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 08:46:19 GMT

@Sigurd

Thanks. I'll download V3.3

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

Sigurd — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 07:48:50 GMT

@rogerclark If you download SES V3.30, you should get this pop-up when you try to compile a project for the first time:

Click "Get a Free License" button to register and get the free license. We have also made a youtube video that shows how to request your free license in your browser and add the activation key in SEGGER Embedded Studio.

SEGGER license website: license.segger.com/Nordic.cgi

Note that this was just released yesterday, so more information about this will be added in the next days/weeks.

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

Roger Clark — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 22:27:44 GMT

@Sigurd

Please can you post a link to the updated license document which allows for free use of Segger Embedded Studio for use with Nordic devices.

Otherwise we do not have this officially from Segger.

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

Sigurd — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:31:38 GMT

Hi bee,

We have now released SDK 14.1, where we have added support for Segger Embedded Studio (SES) IDE. You can use Segger Embedded Studio for commercial and non-commercial purpose with Nordic Semiconductor devices free of charge.

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

Roger Clark — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 02:41:00 GMT

Yes. For Eclipse which has native project management its better not not use external makefiles

I only use makefiles but only when I am building from commandline

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

Nguyen Hoan Hoang — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 02:21:03 GMT

I personally don't like makefiles. I do all natively :)

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

Roger Clark — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 02:15:09 GMT

Thanks for the link

That was the blog I saw, which used a native build process.

I didn't realise it was your blog ;-)

Its probably worth me trying Eclipse again now.

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

Nguyen Hoan Hoang — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 01:52:17 GMT

You can try this blog for Eclipse & GCC with ARM based dev. Same Eclipse, multiple targets. Has native Eclipse project examples no makefile, including dfu.

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

Roger Clark — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 10:12:00 GMT

@Bee

I agree, it would be better if there was an easier way to get started with Eclipse, as I had a lot of problems setting up a project in Eclipse.

BTW. I didn't find it much easier to setup Segger Embedded Studio, and I found out after installing that I can't use it for any commercial projects (as its licensing conditions are somewhat confusing)

Keil and IAR appear to be the only projects which "just work" (and I don't have IAR because this is only a time limited evaluation version)

I only have the Keil evaluation installed as its sometimes easier to open an example project in Keil, just to see what drivers and components etc are used for specific types of example.

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

Bee — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 08:24:33 GMT

Yes, Roger. You are right. I also think Eclpise is the truly free IDE. But the SDK projects need to be merge to eclipse. I met a lot of problem when merging the projects in nRF SDK following the blog post. If Nordic can offer a native eclipse project and developers can just use it like keil, just click "import a project" then all is OK, developers can decrease many repetitive works.

RE: Is there a free IDE which is official recommended and multi-platform?

Roger Clark — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 08:13:12 GMT

Segger Embedded Studio is not actually free, if you carefully read the license doc it is only free for evaluation / non commercial, but is not size limited

Keil has an evaluation version, which is size limited 32k application size, but as most of the API is in the SD not in the application code, most of the examples in the SDK will compile in the evaluation version of Keil - however you can't use it for commercial projects, as the license is for evaluation only

Eclipse is the only IDE which is truely free and unlimited, and Nordic have a blog entry about setting it up and using it. However the build process is not fully integrated in the blog post, as it still uses the external makefile used for command line GCC builds

Visual GDB is another possible option, but its Not Free, but is quite low cost (around $100 last time I checked)

Or you could simply use your own favourite editor and use the gcc makefile. You can still use Segger OZone to debug if you have a JLink.