This page is is part of my embedded system notes.
ODeV is a project to configure Eclipse to compile C/C++ code for embedded ARM microcontrollers. These are my notes on the topic:
The main ODeV web site is:
http://www.stf12.org/developers/ODeV.html
Eclipse is a cross platform software development environment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_(software)that runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. The main web site is:
http://eclipse.org/Eclipse appears to be released once a year in June. Each release is given a name -- Galileo (2009), Helios (2010), Indigo (2011), etc.
I attempted to install exclipse from Ubuntu packages. Unfortunately, I was running Ubuntu 10.4 (Long Term Support) and the available packages only provided the Galilio release of Eclipse. This is a little dated so I had to uninstall it.
Instead, I went to the Eclipse downloads page:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/and I downloaded the "Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Devlopers (includes Incubating components)":
cd somewhere
mkdir eclipse
cd eclipse
wget http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/indigo/SR2/eclipse-modeling-indigo-SR2-linux-gtk.tar.gz
gunzip -c eclipse-modeling-indigo-SR2-linux-gtk.tar.gz | tar xvf -
mv eclipse eclipse-indigo
After I put eclipse into my path, I was able to
fire it up:
export PATH=$PATH:somewhere/eclipse/eclipse-indigo/eclipse
eclipse
There is actually a movie that shows the steps involved in installing the cross compiler:
http://www.stf12.org/developers/odev-eclipse-configuration-movie.htmlThe GnuARM stuff comes from:
http://gnuarmeclipse.sourceforge.net/updatesEverything else comes from the Eclipse plug-ins stuff. When the SVN repository is specified:
http://stf12.googlecode.com/svn/It will ask to create a master repository with passwords and password recovery the first time through.
The documentation gets thinner now.
http://stf12.googlecode.com/svn/, open "trunk".
[Project] => [Build Project] builds the project. There is supposed to be a way to see the build console of the make run, but I have not figured it out yet.
In the SVN prepostitory, check out "OpenOCD". This will download all the OpenOCD stuff.