How to set up GCC and Eclipse for development on the beacon kit

[wim]

Hi,

I am looking to select a bluetooth chip for a new project, one of the criteria is access to free development tools. I see that in the SDK GCC is supported. But: how do I set this up? Is there some guidelines or user manual? And what is this soft device? Is there a step by step tutorial or something to get started? I would like to start off from the beacon example, and from there on add things, like communication to an SPI device from the microcontroller.

Any help is very welcome, find it very difficult to find an entry point...

[Nguyen Hoan Hoang]

This blog post here is full Eclipse GCC on OS X. Contains example project created with Eclipse also include iOS source code for each examples. Current Eclipse is Mars. Luna is not recommended. http://embeddedsoftdev.blogspot.ca/p/ehal-nrf51.html

[Nguyen Hoan Hoang]

The CMSIS Path, because you have not downloaded the CMSIS library from ARM and put in the source tree. There is a link to download the CMSIS on the EHAL page. It is general for all ARM development. The missing nrf51 path is because of the new SDK 7. All the source tree of the new SDK have changed. The projects are updated with SDK7. You'll need to change the path to location where you put the SDK. Importing existing project is fine. The SDK7 is very messy with include files all over the places. The folder nrf51422 and nrf51822 are the old SDK6.

I did put the precompiled CMSIS & EHAL lib in github. For quick start, you don't need to compile them. For long term, it may be best to get them compiled on your system.