Adding new toolchain

Hi Promod,

Can you give some more details of what you are trying to achieve ? I will be able to help you.

Do you want a particular toolchain installed on your eclipse CDT?

If it's a publicly  available toolchain then you can install it as a plugin to eclipse.

All the plugins will be listed in eclipse marketplace. ( Help -> Eclipse Marketplace)

For example you want to install GNU ARM Eclipse plugin then you can search a keyword like "GNU ARM" or "arm" it will list the plugin

Once you install the plugin successfully, You can start creating projects using this toolchains. Project templates will be present to choose from when you start the project.

If you are asking about changing the GCC toolchain in eclipse then its different. Let me know what exactly you are looking for.

Regards,

Aswin

Thanks Aswin for the reply

These are the inbuilt toolchains providing by the MCU Eclipse , i Just want to add a new toolchain to this (i have binaries for the same).So how should i integrate that to this

Thanks

When you start a new project. You will get an option to choose your toolchain like this.

Don't worry if you have already started the project, then go to the go to the project->preference menu and under MCU set the toolchain path.

If you want the settings common for all the projects, then go to window->preference and under MCU select the ARM Toolchain Paths and browse to the location to your GCC

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Aswin

These are the options for the default toolchains provided by the MCU Eclipse right. I want to integrate a new toolchain eg: RISC-V Bitmanip to the dropdown and when i select the same it should update the path automatically like the other ones.

(Here i hardcoded the toolchain name but it is not updating the path for the global scope)

so when i searched i find this link

https://www.element14.com/community/message/225338/l/adding-new-toolchain#225338

and they are mentioned there that these are done by using the extension points and now i'm stuck here i dont know the next step after this

Hi Promod,

Okay, From what I understand you need to create a new plugin for your toolchain. Eclipse CDT has a quite extensive documentation on how you can create your own plugins. Please have a look here :

https://help.eclipse.org/2020-06/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.isv/guide/mbs/extensibilityGuide/Managed_Build_Ext…

One cross compile gcc extension can be found here:

https://github.com/eclipse-cdt/cdt/blob/master/cross/org.eclipse.cdt.build.crossgcc/plugin.xml

Its basically an xml file containing all the information about what you need. Please have a look.

I have never tried these in real-life. I heard about these few years back when I was using eclipse plugins quite extensively.

Now I became a complete commandline guy. Trying to avoid any IDE for various reasons.

For more  information contacting @Liviu Ionescu would be the best option. He is the auther of gnu-mcu-eclipse plugin

Regards,

Aswin

Hi Promod,

I think when you spend some time on this I am sure you will be able to figure out how this is done.

When you get everything running, I would request you to write a blog here on the same, so that others can also learn things from it.

Regards,

Aswin

Hi Promod,

I think when you spend some time on this I am sure you will be able to figure out how this is done.

When you get everything running, I would request you to write a blog here on the same, so that others can also learn things from it.

Regards,

Aswin