SDK v 4.3, S110 v 5.2 and a totally new gcc toolchain.

RE: SDK v 4.3, S110 v 5.2 and a totally new gcc toolchain.

Bastiaan — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:17:04 GMT

I'm just getting started, reading all the old posts I can find. Where is this 'new toolchain' using GCC on OSX? That sounds eminently more like what I want than running keil under parallels.

RE: SDK v 4.3, S110 v 5.2 and a totally new gcc toolchain.

Guest — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:17:04 GMT

I'm just getting started, reading all the old posts I can find. Where is this 'new toolchain' using GCC on OSX? That sounds eminently more like what I want than running keil under parallels.

RE: SDK v 4.3, S110 v 5.2 and a totally new gcc toolchain.

Raveen Beemsingh — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 20:44:56 GMT

Working directly on OSX would be ideal :) will try this out asap

RE: SDK v 4.3, S110 v 5.2 and a totally new gcc toolchain.

Ole Morten — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 06:41:31 GMT

Ok, this is most likely since the question already has been marked as resolved, but without an accepted answer. If you remove the resolved part, you should be able to accept an answer, but for convenience I've just fixed it. If you disagree, feel free to unaccept and accept another one. Still learning the system ourselves. :)

RE: SDK v 4.3, S110 v 5.2 and a totally new gcc toolchain.

cocoa — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:21:38 GMT

Hello Ole, the browser doesn't show the button accepted. Only edit, delete or mark unresolved. But on the initial question it shows a green label. So, for me is accepted.

RE: SDK v 4.3, S110 v 5.2 and a totally new gcc toolchain.

Ole Morten — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 08:36:20 GMT

I'd be happy if you could mark one of the answers as accepted, so that it shows up at the top. Choose the one that you feel answers your question best. :-)

RE: SDK v 4.3, S110 v 5.2 and a totally new gcc toolchain.

Marc Nicholas — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 13:34:36 GMT

Thanks for clarifying that, Ole. It gives some hope for us Mac users :)

-m

RE: SDK v 4.3, S110 v 5.2 and a totally new gcc toolchain.

cocoa — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:48:40 GMT

I agree with you about the download link.

RE: SDK v 4.3, S110 v 5.2 and a totally new gcc toolchain.

cocoa — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:45:04 GMT

I've tested the new toolchain that Nordic has adopted and, without the nightmare about the porting of CS3 libraries from linux to OS X, now, is a new life.

Upgrading the gcc toolchain on OS X, is a breeze.

Perfect choice Nordic, congratulations.

Mac OS X developers, finally, have the chances to code, compile and debug nRF51822 firmware directly in OS X.

Gcc ld scripts in SDK work perfectly in Eclipse with gnu ARM Plugin.

Hoping in a support from Nordic to release an Xcode plugin for this toolchain.

Thanks.

-c

RE: SDK v 4.3, S110 v 5.2 and a totally new gcc toolchain.

Ole Morten — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:31:33 GMT

I'm not at work now, so I can't check it in detail, but I actually think that this could be just a typo, as the S110 version 5.2 is not quite finished yet as far as I know. Anyway, the only change from 5.1 to 5.2 will be support for a new chip revision, which is about to be rolled out, so since none of you have this (yet), there isn't anything fun in the new S110 release.

The change of toolchain was as far as I've understood it mostly done for availability reasons. The Lite version of the CodeSourcery toolchain seemed to become constantly harder to find an actual download link for, while the gcc-arm-embedded toolchain puts download links (for all platforms) up front. If you've started using CodeSourcery, you will most likely be fine continuing to do so, but our builds are no longer being tested with this.

RE: SDK v 4.3, S110 v 5.2 and a totally new gcc toolchain.

Ole Morten — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:25:11 GMT

GCC is now officially supported, but unfortunately the support is quite limited (only ble_app_hrs of the BLE applications in the SDK comes with a Makefile).

It should however be possible to get everything in the SDK working with GCC if you want to and need it. As far as I have seen with SDK 4.3.0, most (all?) examples compiles without problems if you just create a Makefile.

RE: SDK v 4.3, S110 v 5.2 and a totally new gcc toolchain.

Guest — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:19:46 GMT

Keil runs only on windows ... and uVision is a dreadful IDE.

-c

RE: SDK v 4.3, S110 v 5.2 and a totally new gcc toolchain.

Marc Nicholas — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:53:35 GMT

I don't want to speak for Nordic, but I believe they've indicated only Keil is 'officially' supported toolchain.

Everything else is for entertainment purposes only, as far as I know ;)

I'm sure Ole can provide a more concrete and official answer when he has a moment.

-m