Need information for setting up nRF52840 on Eclipse IDE & GCC compiler

[[email protected]]

Hi ,

Need information for setting up nRF52840 on Eclipse IDE  & GCC compiler . Need if any stepwise process guide available for setting up environment &  debugging process .Could not find documentation regarding same.

[Vidar Berg]

Hi,

We don't have an up-to-date tutorial for setting up an environment with Eclipse and GCC. As you may know, the cross-platform IDE we recommend is Segger embedded studio. For more information about this IDE, please see our product page here: https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Development-tools/Segger-Embedded-Studio/Get-Started

[[email protected]]

Hi ,Thanks for reply .

Normally we prefer Seggar Embedded Studio  only .                                                                                                                              However , we need to use Eclipse and GCC due to one sensor integration for which libraries available in Eclipse IDE only.

If any earlier guide, tutorial is there please let us know.

Found one old blog discussion on nRF51 series in below link .Will it be applicable /useful  for implementation with nRF52840 ? 

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/nordic/nordic-blog/b/blog/posts/development-with-eclipse-and-gcc 

[Vidar Berg]

[email protected] said:

However , we need to use Eclipse and GCC due to one sensor integration for which libraries available in Eclipse IDE only.

I don't understand how Eclipse will help you integrate the library? You will be using the same toolchain anyway (GCC)

[Neel]

Dear Vidar,

The company making the sensor SDK provides steps to integrate their sensor SDK only within Eclipse and not with SES. They say they don't support SES.

We understand where you are coming from but we are only sharing what we have learnt from them.

Neel.

[Vidar Berg]

There are different ways to set up an Eclipse project so I'm not sure the integrations steps provided by the vendor would necessarily have applied anyway. The now removed tutorial linked to in the other post explained how to build projects from Eclipse using the existing SDK Makefiles, which means that any changes to the build process, like linking of additional libraries, had to be done by editing the Makefile and not through some project settings within Eclipse.

Did you make any attempts to add the library to SES? It should generally be straight forward to do. There are several examples of this in the SDK. ble_app_hrs is for instance including this pre-compiled crypto library:

Best regards,

Vidar