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#163 Building project on Eclipse using GNU ARM

Liviu Ionescu (ilg) — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 10:34:20 -0000

did you figure out how to use the plug-ins to build your project?

#163 Building project on Eclipse using GNU ARM

Liviu Ionescu (ilg) — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:57:27 -0000

what do you mean by managed projects?

project with the makefile automatically generated by Eclipse CDT

#163 Building project on Eclipse using GNU ARM

Adam Khudoznyk — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:53:51 -0000

so mingw isn't on the system path, just the arm-none-... upon removing it from the system path, nothing works

using busybox doesn't change anything either

what do you mean by managed projects?

#163 Building project on Eclipse using GNU ARM

Liviu Ionescu (ilg) — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:44:29 -0000

adding mingw and/or the toolchain to system path is generally a very bad idea, and interferes with the path management features implemented in the Eclipse plug-ins.

it might be possible to make it work, but you're on your own.

#163 Building project on Eclipse using GNU ARM

Adam Khudoznyk — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:39:59 -0000

ok - so the project compiles under MinGW in a terminal, with the arm-none-eabi-gcc added to the system path.

I'll give that a go (busybox) and see what happens

Thanks,
Adam

#163 Building project on Eclipse using GNU ARM

Liviu Ionescu (ilg) — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:35:39 -0000

interested in being able to set up a 'simple' build environment with a visual debug.

as I said, you need to first make the build process work manually in a terminal, without any Eclipse or other visual environment; until you succeed on this it makes no sense to expect Eclipse to work.

mkdir

if you installed the GNU ARM Eclipse Windows Build Tools, this package is taylored for managed projects make files, it does not include ANY program that might be required in a custom makefile.

however, since it uses busybox, you can try to copy busybox.exe as mkdir.exe (and possibly other executables).

#163 Building project on Eclipse using GNU ARM

Adam Khudoznyk — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:29:07 -0000

I have had success doing that and have the general idea of how they work. The makefile that I am using is maintained by other developers, so I am more interested in being able to set up a 'simple' build environment with a visual debug.
Eclipse seems to be the ideal tool to do this, and I am able to compile the entire project under MinGW. However, from what I understand, this would not work for an ARM processor - so when trying to build using the ARM build/toolchain I am running into problems.
From the error messsage, I am assuming that the problem is something to do with the mkdir exe? Or is it possible that I have not set up the toolchain correctly?

#163 Building project on Eclipse using GNU ARM

Liviu Ionescu (ilg) — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:19:15 -0000

for makefile projects you need first to make them work manually in a terminal.

once done, you can figure out how to run them in Eclipse.

I suggest you start with a manually written minimal makefile (single .c source file Hello World) and then move to more complicated things.

#163 Building project on Eclipse using GNU ARM

Adam Khudoznyk — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:15:23 -0000

i understand that it is developed under linux, and am looking to set up a windows dev environment.

yes, it is a makefile project - with quite a complicated makefile. what steps would i need (or is there any available documentation) to configure it to work in Eclipse?

#163 Building project on Eclipse using GNU ARM

Liviu Ionescu (ilg) — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 13:09:38 -0000

status: open --> accepted