ok... I will weigh in on this one. I think you should pretty much stick with the simple "Hello World" thing. Making a one-size fits all project is a little bit too onerous for most of us out here. What we usually do is make a platform-specific one-size fits all for the family of products for our clients/customers/bosses. This is what works for me. I would...however, really welcome any new driver libraries...fully tested, and debugged, complete with documentation, (in the header files of course), with some example usage. Ken Wada --- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, Steve Franks <stevefranks@i...> wrote: > > As usual, I'm gonna jump right out there and parade around my naivete > for the spectators... > > So, I got me an old LPC2106 board, and a brand-spankin-new 2148 > board, and I've got examples from Keil, IAR, Embedded Artists, > Aoleous, WinARM, etc. Most of them I've gotten to work. However, I > have wound up with the world's ugliest stack of mistmatched lpcxyz.h > files, .ld files, makefiles, and the whole nine yards. Every single > project does the same thing in terms of building, pretty much the same > startup, etc. Even on stuff made origonally for GCC, there's still > about 99 ways to 'set up' a project (don't get me wrong, this is a > 'good thing' in general), but I spend alot of time on cut & paste, > move this register definion to that header, etc. > > Now I finally get to my question. Any support for creating a > 'standard' project. I suspect that's one of the newbie's biggest > complaints. And I've been around the block maybe once, and it's still > making me crazy. Especially given how much similarity there is, even > with the commercial stuff, ala IAR & Keil in terms of headers, at > least. So I'm volunteering to make a distribuition that would include > a peer-reviewed 'best-practices' type set for a raw project, including > a standard set of headers for each lpc now in existence, and make & > .ld. Since IAR/Keil seems pretty header-friendly, I would even like > to make it compatible with them as well (though I don't know if their > project files that replace make & .ld are 'open'). Before everone > tells me that there's too much customization that *has* to be done, > let me say, I just want to make a 'standard' project that will work > for as many as possible. Anytime you want to do something fun, you're > going to have to become an expert anyway. But I haven't seen why I > can make 90% of the examples out there play nice by making a standard > project format to drop them into. The PIC & AVR guys do it, I think > we should too. <wink><After all, if we steal from their ranks, > philips will keep making more new lpc's for us to play with></wink> > > So, is this a good idea, or no? Nor do I know anything about a > preferred location, etc. I'll do the headers, if people give me data > for the new stuff (i.e. 2103), and I have a makefile expert I can > probably do some arm twisting on. So mostly I'm just asking if it > will be well recived, and if anyone will be willing to review it & try > it on their code. > > Steve >
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Re: LPC headers
2006-01-25 by Ken Wada
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