Codewarrior compiler command line???

Op 18-Dec-11 1:30, David Brown schreef:
> On 17/12/11 21:40, Dombo wrote:
>> Op 16-Dec-11 10:10, David Brown schreef:
>>
>>> The only supplier I know of who has bucked the trend is Atmel - they
>>> picked MS Visual Studio for AVR Studio 5. The only reason I can think of
>>> is that MS paid them to do so - it has awkward requirements (it's
>>> windows only, while the rest of the world is moving to cross-platform
>>> tools, and is even somewhat fussy about the windows version), and is
>>> very badly packaged.
>>
>> Microsoft paying Atmel to use the MS Visual Studio would only make sense
>> if it would serve the interests of Microsoft somehow and in a
>> significant way. Having dealt with Microsoft in the past, I seriously
>> doubt they care one way or the other whether or not Atmel uses MS Visual
>> Studio to base their development environment upon. Microsoft is only
>> interested in supporting things if it promotes the sales of their high
>> volume products, don't expect Microsoft to help you if it would mean
>> that they can sell couple of thousand additional licenses; they are
>> simply not interested. This is one reason why I would avoid Microsoft
>> for embedded products; you are unlikely to be big enough for them to be
>> bothered.
>
> I wasn't really being serious there!
>
> Realistically, I assume that someone at Atmel either thought that Visual
> Studio was technically a better choice, or that it would cost them less
> to develop than Eclipse plugins.

Visual Studio is a fine IDE for Windows development, but is not really 
intended as a general purpose IDE. I can't see any benefit for using it 
as an IDE for any other environment, unless it is all you have and know.

>> Another explanation is that the developers at Atmel were familiar with
>> the Visual Studio environment (which is perfectly fine if you only do
>> development projects for the Windows platform), and were not so familiar
>> with Eclipse. If they also had little time and resources for development
>> of develop AVR Studio 5, it might explain this unfortunate choice.
>
> Avr Studio 4 (and earlier) were all using a home-made IDE. Atmel also
> had Avr Studio 32 for the avr32 architecture - it was Eclipse with
> plugins. Maybe they had had some bad experience with that - it is
> certainly the case that it used to be a lot harder to make good embedded
> IDE's from Eclipse. Many Eclipse-based embedded IDEs had a lot of
> modifications to Eclipse itself to make them work. But for current
> versions of Eclipse, the embedded IDE vendors can typically use pure
> stock Eclipse and CDT, and keep everything neatly in their own plugins.

I'm puzzled why they made this decision. I'm not Microsoft hater, but I 
really can't think of a (technical) reason why one would want to use 
Visual Studio for anything other than developing software for Windows.