And if you want to use Visual Studio Code instead of Eclipse, I have a full series of tutorial for this as well: Visual Studio Code for C/C++ with ARM Cortex-M: Part 1 – Installation. If you want to see CMake with Eclipse for the Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040, I have covered you here: Getting Started: Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 with Eclipse and J-Link. I’m using Windows 10 as host machine, but you can easily use/adapt things for Linux/MacOS too. The files on GitHub are can be used as a template for your own project. The project and files for this tutorial are on GitHub: I’m using CMake in this tutorial, because in my experience many developers struggle using it, so I want to give them here an easy start as well.Īs hardware I’m using the NXP LPC55S69-EVK board: Of course you can substitute Eclipse with anything else, as long as it is supports CMake, for example Visual Studio Code. The project can be built from the command line, but I’m using Eclipse here as IDE too. But you can continue later on using the SDK files too. I still use some copied files from the SDK as I don’t want to re-invent things, but these things are very generic and don’t force you to continue using the SDK if you don’t want. In this this tutorial I show how to create a ‘bare-bare’ project for the LPC55S69-EVK board, without the config tools and the SDK. NXP LPC55S69-EVK with LoRa Shield Outline ![]() In this case, I show how you easily can do this with CMake, make and Eclipse, without the (direct) need of an SDK. So why not get started with a ‘bare’ project, using general available tools, just with a basic initialization (clocking, startup code, CMSIS), even with the silicon vendor provided IDE and basic support files? But this gets you into a dependency on tools, SDK and configuration tools too: changing later from one MCU to another can be difficult and time consuming. The general template for such a project can have the following structure.Ĭmake_minimum_required ( VERSION 2.8) SET( CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES "Debug Release MinSizeRel RelWithDebInfo" CACHE STRING "" FORCE) if ( NOT CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE) set ( CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Debug CACHE STRING "Choose the type of build, options are: None Debug Release RelWithDebInfo MinSizeRel.MCU vendors offer SDKs and configuration tools: that’s a good thing, because that way I can get started quickly and get something up and running ideally in a few minutes. PC project - includes unit tests, a library of communication, etc.'.CMake project s a sort of scripting language that defines the project files, compiler, flag, etc.' For embedded projects, I usually maintain two sub-projects: ![]() It can create projects to different kinds of IDEs like eclipse and visual studio, and depend on a selected IDE it makes appropriate project files. The CMake tools is a generator of build systems. gnu make tool - used by cmake and eclipseįor convenience, it is better to install the software above in the global path variable.The first stage is to install the following software on windows. Hence, I describe here the stages that I had to do to import a CMake project from Linux to eclipse that run on windows. Still, when I had to switch it to eclipse on windows environment, that was a challenging task. Usually, I work in a Linux environment in the terminal where everything is installed correctly in its place, and things work great. ![]() For example, a shared source code that simultaneously able to recompile in both processors when any change occurs in these shared files. Usually, the MCU has some communication with other processors (usually PC), and CMake also allows easy integration between both projects: MCU and HOST. CMake is a powerful tool to manage c/c++ projects, and I prefer to use it in on my embedded projects also.
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