GNU MCU → Eclipse Embedded CDT! (original) (raw)

GNU MCU → Eclipse Embedded CDT!

In 2020, the GNU MCU/ARM Eclipse project was migrated to the Eclipse Foundation asEclipse Embedded CDT (C/C++ Development Tools); starting with v5.1.1, all futurereleaseswill be available from the Eclipse Foundation.

Eclipse Embedded CDT is an open source project that includes a family of Eclipse plug-ins and tools for multi-platform embedded ARM and RISC-V development, based on GNU toolchains. This project is hosted onGitHub. The former project was hosted on GitHub andSourceForge.

RISC-V

Starting with Eclipse plug-ins v4.x, the project was enhanced with support for RISC-V devices, thus the new MCU name, more appropriate for a multi-platform project. For more details, see the RISC-V Corner andxPack GNU RISC-V Embedded GCCpage.

The Eclipse Embedded CDT plug-ins

These plug-ins provide Eclipse CDT (C/C++ Development Tooling) extensions for GNU embedded toolchains like GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors, Linaro, xPack GNU RISC-V Embedded GCC, etc.

In short, the Eclipse Embedded CDT plug-ins allow to create, build, debug and in general to manage ARM & RISC-V projects (executables and static/shared libraries, in both 32 and 64-bit versions) with the Eclipse framework (currently tested up to Eclipse 4.10 2018-12). The plug-ins run on Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux. For more details please visit the Features page.

Apart from the main Eclipse plug-ins, this project is accompanied by several other tools, distributed as separate packages.

• xPack Windows Build Tools
  The xPack Windows Build Toolsproject includes the additional tools required to perform builds on Windows (make & rm).
• xPack GNU Arm Embedded GCC
  The xPack GNU Arm Embedded GCCproject is an alternate binary distribution that complements the officialGNU Arm Embedded Toolchain maintained by Arm. Binaries for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux are available.
• xPack GNU RISC-V Embedded GCC
  The xPack GNU RISC-V Embedded GCCproject is a new distribution of the bare metal version ofRISC-V GCC, maintained bySiFive. Binaries for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux are available.
• xPack OpenOCD
  The xPack OpenOCD project is a new distribution of OpenOCD, customised for a better/more convenient integration with the OpenOCD Debugging plug-in. Binaries for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux are available.
• xPack QEMU Arm
  The xPack QEMU Arm project is a fork of QEMU (an open source machine emulator), intended to provide support for Cortex-M emulation in GNU MCU Eclipse. Binaries for Windows, macOS and GNU/Linux are available.
  

Let us know if you enjoyed it!

We definitely enjoyed working on the project! If you successfully installed Eclipse Embedded CDT and enjoyed using it, please let us know; here are some advices:

• the best way to praise us would be to donate - if you want to speed up development and future versions to include more and more great features, please consider donating; any contribution, small or generous, will be highly appreciated;
• star the project using the [GitHub Stars]https://github.com/eclipse-embed-cdt/eclipse-plugins/stargazers);
• follow the project on Twitter, to get notifications on new releases;

Thank you,

Liviu Ionescu