I decided to move this blog to github. I was playing last 3 days with jekyll. It was harder than I expected, but I have moved all posts there. I'll keep this alive for cross-reference, but will be publishing new posts there.
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The link My new personal webpage [http://0xc0170.github.io/]
October 28, 2014
September 18, 2014
Project generator - building exported project
The build feature has been implemented in the last 2 days aka ProjectBuilder. This allows to build exported projects, which is useful for automated testing.
The building is currently supported for all tools there (IAR, uVision, Makefile), but IAR still has one bug, does not generate any output eventhough builds without errors.
Want to share with you, that I am currently adding CoIDE (only export, as it does not support building via command line). Should be completed this week.
Anyone out there using the project generator? What tool would you like to see there ? Eclipse? LPCExpresso? Kinetis Design Studio?
The real example is here https://github.com/0xc0170/project_generator_mbed_examples, using mbed SDK. I replaced mbed library by mbed SDK submodule, to stay up to date.
The example repository shows how are records written and how to use it with your own files (blinky demo).
The building is currently supported for all tools there (IAR, uVision, Makefile), but IAR still has one bug, does not generate any output eventhough builds without errors.
Want to share with you, that I am currently adding CoIDE (only export, as it does not support building via command line). Should be completed this week.
Anyone out there using the project generator? What tool would you like to see there ? Eclipse? LPCExpresso? Kinetis Design Studio?
The real example is here https://github.com/0xc0170/project_generator_mbed_examples, using mbed SDK. I replaced mbed library by mbed SDK submodule, to stay up to date.
The example repository shows how are records written and how to use it with your own files (blinky demo).
August 29, 2014
Project generator - wiki pages on github
I am currently writing wiki pages for the project generator. If you are interested in the project, read it and provide feedback.
The link Project generator - Wiki pages [github.com/0xc0170/project_generator/wiki]
I am going to merge IAR options once I finish and test them, currently implementation on the branch. It takes longer time than uVision, as IAR has many separate options.
I finished the release of v0.1 this week, created a new tasks for v0.2.
My focus in the v0.2 will be on documentation, stabilize uVision, IAR and creating one generic Makefile for GCC toolchains.
The link Project generator - Wiki pages [github.com/0xc0170/project_generator/wiki]
I am going to merge IAR options once I finish and test them, currently implementation on the branch. It takes longer time than uVision, as IAR has many separate options.
I finished the release of v0.1 this week, created a new tasks for v0.2.
My focus in the v0.2 will be on documentation, stabilize uVision, IAR and creating one generic Makefile for GCC toolchains.
August 19, 2014
Project generator - gcc arm makefile and IAR enabled (update)
I just want to share that I added 2 more IDE to the project generator.
GCC ARM export and IAR is now enabled.
GCC ARM export and IAR is now enabled.
- GCC ARM generates a makefile based project. Enabled in the mbed example as well.
- IAR generates a project. Specific IAR options are not yet implemented. Thus they are predefined in the template project. As I shown with uvision class, it can be added to misc dictionary, and then parse it to get each specific settings.
August 12, 2014
Project generators in python for various IDE (uvision at the moment only)
It's been a while I posted something. I reallocated myself and started a new job, as you could notice, thus I didn't have time to write more news. I can ensure you, there are more things I'll be sharing. Let's begin with the one I have been programming last days.
There was a discussion for quite a while about creating exporters for small projects. A generator which could be easily edited and ported to a new platform or a new project. Many projects have own exporters (stay with a term: project generators), but don't share it with the world.
As some of you might have noticed, there were a problem with projects in CMSIS-DAP mbed repository. Projects are tracked by the version control system, as there are no generators. This introduces some clatter to the project, as IDE updates it's project files, without even changing any settings. Then a user sends a pull request with unintentionally updated project files. Not to mention if for a project there are more targets with various settings, the maintenance becomes cumbersome. What if you change a name of common file? Yes, update all projects which are using it.
I decided to give a shot to write trivial project generators in python based on yaml records. I published them few days ago, but there was no example how use records for a project. Therefore there was published an example for project generators. It is for K20D50M target, blinky demo based on mbed sources:
Project generator - mbed examples [https://github.com/0xc0170]
Currently, project generators support K20D50M target and uvision IDE. There is GCC class but needs more work (planned for upcoming days).
Be aware, it's still in early stage, so the structure of records is subject to change. I published it, primary as I don't have that much free time to be able to expand it dozen of targets and IDE's, therefore I hope that publishing it and providing an example how it works, will attract more developers.
Do you have a project where you could benefit from exporting to various IDE? Give it a try.
There was a discussion for quite a while about creating exporters for small projects. A generator which could be easily edited and ported to a new platform or a new project. Many projects have own exporters (stay with a term: project generators), but don't share it with the world.
As some of you might have noticed, there were a problem with projects in CMSIS-DAP mbed repository. Projects are tracked by the version control system, as there are no generators. This introduces some clatter to the project, as IDE updates it's project files, without even changing any settings. Then a user sends a pull request with unintentionally updated project files. Not to mention if for a project there are more targets with various settings, the maintenance becomes cumbersome. What if you change a name of common file? Yes, update all projects which are using it.
I decided to give a shot to write trivial project generators in python based on yaml records. I published them few days ago, but there was no example how use records for a project. Therefore there was published an example for project generators. It is for K20D50M target, blinky demo based on mbed sources:
Project generator - mbed examples [https://github.com/0xc0170]
Currently, project generators support K20D50M target and uvision IDE. There is GCC class but needs more work (planned for upcoming days).
Be aware, it's still in early stage, so the structure of records is subject to change. I published it, primary as I don't have that much free time to be able to expand it dozen of targets and IDE's, therefore I hope that publishing it and providing an example how it works, will attract more developers.
Do you have a project where you could benefit from exporting to various IDE? Give it a try.
April 8, 2014
New FRDM board on mbed with ethernet (news)
I haven't written any blog lately. The reason (for some it can be an excuse) is that I have been porting the new target to the mbed. It's FRDM-K64F which has been announced during FTF 2014.
The link to the platform page to get more information : FRDM-K64F
The mbed ethernet support is not yet ready, will be available soon.
EnjoY!
The link to the platform page to get more information : FRDM-K64F
The mbed ethernet support is not yet ready, will be available soon.
EnjoY!
February 22, 2014
FRDM KL05Z is mbed enabled (news)
The FRDM-KL05Z board was my first target added to mbed. I would even say that was my initial experience with mbed sources. That was back in June 2013. It was added to mbed.org yesterday. This became 3rd Freescale board available on mbed.
FRDM-KL05Z [mbed.org/platforms]
It supports export to ARM GCC, uVision and CoIDE.
Paul Staron shared an info about low power modes and his power measurements. Not possible to carry out on FRDM board though. Here's a link for more information FRDM-KL05Z sleep modes and RTC [mbed.org/forum]
FRDM-KL05Z [mbed.org/platforms]
It supports export to ARM GCC, uVision and CoIDE.
Paul Staron shared an info about low power modes and his power measurements. Not possible to carry out on FRDM board though. Here's a link for more information FRDM-KL05Z sleep modes and RTC [mbed.org/forum]
February 17, 2014
CoIDE export is available for KL25Z on mbed (news)
My latest article was how to use CoIDE with C++. I added exporters for CoIDE to mbed. I was able to make it work for KL25Z, KL05Z (not yet online on mbed.org site, will be soon). LCP1768 is functional but not through CMSIS-DAP, due to a problem which was reported to CoIDE team a while ago.
The exporter is online in the mbed compiler, see picture below.
Enjoy using CooCox CoIDE with KL25Z and mbed! If there are any problems, please report them on the mbed site, or just here in comments.
The exporter is online in the mbed compiler, see picture below.
Enjoy using CooCox CoIDE with KL25Z and mbed! If there are any problems, please report them on the mbed site, or just here in comments.
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