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

[wim]

I did download the CMSIS library, and did put them in the source tree, as discussed on your blog. But there seems to be something wrong with the expansion of the path using the workspace_loc path variable. Is it important where I put the workspace? I put it in a sub directory of my Documents folder on Mac - is this a path which might conflict? I haven't tried the precompiled libs yet, but I agree that it would be best to have the compilation ok. My guess is that the other projects will also not compile because of the same path issues. I will give that a try and get back. Anyway, many thanks for the quick reply. It's very helpful!