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Developing Eclipse ARM toolchain for the Linux

Started by piyush February 23, 2011
Hello to all
I have Ubuntu 10.04 linux installed on my Desktop PC and I have an ARM
development board for the development of applications for the ARM
processors and testing the application on the ARM board.

I searched all the net and what I have got is either the commercial SDK for
the ARM or the open source free developement tools for the ARM that also
for the windows and not for the linux.

I got one material ARM with Eclipse IDE written by James Lynch, but that
too is for the windows environment .
So I want to know that is there any document or blog on the site which tell
us that how to make a developement environment for ARM using Eclipse as IDE
and all the free GNU toolchains for the ARM.
I have searched a lot and I want th e help from you guys in this direction
, So please help me and tell me that how can I make a powerful developement
environment for the ARM on my Linux desktop.
Thank you

You can use this as a starting point:

http://balau82.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/using-ubuntu-arm-cross-compiler-for-bare-metal-programming/

On a more general "GCC usage for ARM Bare-metal" this seems interesting:
http://www.state-machine.com/arm/Building%5Fbare-metal%5FARM%5Fwith%5FGNU.pdf

Regards
Pietro

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:01 AM, piyush wrote:

> Hello to all
>
> I have Ubuntu 10.04 linux installed on my Desktop PC and I have an ARM
> development board for the development of applications for the ARM
> processors and testing the application on the ARM board.
>
> I searched all the net and what I have got is either the commercial SDK for
> the ARM or the open source free developement tools for the ARM that also
> for the windows and not for the linux.
>
> I got one material ARM with Eclipse IDE written by James Lynch, but that
> too is for the windows environment .
>
> So I want to know that is there any document or blog on the site which tell
> us that how to make a developement environment for ARM using Eclipse as IDE
> and all the free GNU toolchains for the ARM.
>
> I have searched a lot and I want th e help from you guys in this direction
> , So please help me and tell me that how can I make a powerful developement
> environment for the ARM on my Linux desktop.
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
Try gnuarm.com. You should find versions for Linux, Windows and MacOS.

Rick
--- In A..., "piyush" wrote:
>
> Hello to all
> I have Ubuntu 10.04 linux installed on my Desktop PC and I have an ARM
> development board for the development of applications for the ARM
> processors and testing the application on the ARM board.
>
> I searched all the net and what I have got is either the commercial SDK for
> the ARM or the open source free developement tools for the ARM that also
> for the windows and not for the linux.
>
> I got one material ARM with Eclipse IDE written by James Lynch, but that
> too is for the windows environment .
> So I want to know that is there any document or blog on the site which tell
> us that how to make a developement environment for ARM using Eclipse as IDE
> and all the free GNU toolchains for the ARM.
> I have searched a lot and I want th e help from you guys in this direction
> , So please help me and tell me that how can I make a powerful developement
> environment for the ARM on my Linux desktop.
> Thank you
>

--- In A..., "piyush" wrote:
> I have Ubuntu 10.04 linux installed on my Desktop PC and I have an ARM
> development board for the development of applications for the ARM
> processors and testing the application on the ARM board.
>

I use the Linux4SAM website which is designed to support the Atmel ARM processors (we use the AT91SAM9G20 SoC). The development tools work perfectly in my Ubuntu 10.04 environment (I run it in VMWare Player on Windows XP.) At work we use Ubuntu 9.04 for our server and have SVN holding our source code and development tool chain. To setup a new machine, you check out the project and tool chain install, run the tool chain install, and test it by building the AT91bootstrap, U-Boot, Linux, and the project.

Hopefully you bought an Atmel ARM development board... :)