Build option not available on Blinky

[mark waldin]

I have installed and un-installed all the required components to run the dev kit with eclipse. As everyone knows this is complicated because there are multiple sources of instructions of different ages that sometimes conflict with each other or assume things like Kiel dev environment etc.

The bottom line is after following the GNU Eclipse MCU Install on github completely I am lost. I get up to the 'Check/set the global tools paths' which has you open Eclipse preferences and select C/C++ > Build > Global Tool Paths but 'Global Tool Paths' does not exist.

If I skip that step and try to run Blinky example, the Build option is missing on the project.

Can anyone provide some direction to me?

[Sigurd]

Hi,

Have you installed the required plug-ins, and restarted eclipse? See this link.

Note that I would strongly recommend to try out Segger Embedded Studio instead of Eclipse. Segger Embedded Studio is a royalty-free IDE with no code limit, and is specifically designed for embedded development. I suggest that you take a look at our Segger Embedded Studio blog post here to get started.