That’s about it for the toolchain installation on Linux. This can be done, for example, by executing the following commands from the directory that contains the downloaded archive. In this example we will create a directory named gcc in the current user home directory and then extract the toolchain into that directory. However the procedure should be very similar to other embedded GCC toolchains.įirst the downloaded toolchain archive should be extracted to a suitable location. This guide will use as an example the GNU Embedded Toolchain for Cortex-R and M distributed by ARM. In this example eclipse-inst, the following screen should appear.Įclipse can be closed at this point as there are more packages to install before setting up the Eclipse IDE. Note that if possible the 64-bit version of Eclipse is strongly recommended. Start by extracting the installation archive and executing the installer file. This is the simplest method and is also useful since it isolates the Eclipse installation from any native installation that may exist. This guide will use the official Eclipse installer from which will install Eclipse within the current user’s home directory.
As is usual with Linux, there’s more than one way to install Eclipse. The first package to install is the Eclipse IDE. Installation instructions for newer versions, if available, should be similar. The versions cited above are those that were used when writing this guide. This step-by-step section will go through the installation and configuration of the following components in order:
Note that there are many combinations of Eclipse versions, plugins and supporting tools that can be used to successfully build C and C++ applications using the GCC toolchain, this document is the recommended way by JBLopen but readers are free to modify their development environment to suit their needs. This guide is written with embedded software development for MCU and SoCs in mind but can be used with any GCC toolchain regardless of the intended target. This guide is targeted at readers who need to set up a GCC toolchain within a vanilla Eclipse installation.
This guide is the first part of a Linux version of the guide we previously wrote dealing with setting up an embedded software toolchain within Eclipse. This guide is targeted at Linux users, similar instructions for Windows can be found here. A PDF version of this guide, including project setup and debugging is available in the Documentation section.
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