Lpc2000

unity0724 wrote:
> 
> Hi, Some Questions:
> 
> My Arm GCC for LPC21xx is not very well setup on my PC, 
> and thinking of...
> 
> a) UltraEdit+GCC
> Had anybody tried using UltraEdit32 as simple IDE
> for GCC?   I'm thinking of buying a copy of UltraEdit32
> and use it on either GCC from gnuarm.com or codesourcery.
> I only need a good editor with capability of calling the
> GCC Compiler+linker.   Capability of able to move you 
> directly to the code line with errors once you click on the
> compilation status windows (as in Ms Visual Studio) is NOT
> needed. 
> I'm using windows' notepad for source file editing now...
> 
> b) Visual Studio as IDE for GCC?
> I've a copy of Ms Visual Studio Ver6.   Is it possible/
> difficult to customise the Ms IDE for GCC??
> Will only try that if somebody says is a piece of cake..
> 
> c) Windows CE .net 4.2/Platform builder
> Anybody uses Windows CE .net for embedded code development??
> Is WEIRD idea but this software package might have a compiler
> which is able to compile anything down to embedded boot code
> and etc, and it comes with a very very huge, scale-able OS....
> 
> Regards   /MH
> 

I have used UltraEdit+GCC for LPC20xx development in the past. Not much comfort like in VS but at 
least syntax highlighting and some pretty good text editing capabilities. I now use IBM's Eclipse 
3.0 and I don't wish back to the old days of Ultra Edit. Eclipse with the CDT plugin (needed for C 
development) is a powerful yet flexible (and free!) IDE allowing easy integration of different 
compilers and other tools (like the LPC download utility). IMHO, it plays in the same league as VS 
(no flamewar if anyone disagrees, please).
There is a very good tutorial at
http://www.newmicros.com/download/appnotes/ARM/TiniARM_Dev_Eclipse.pdf (12MB file!)
describing how to setup cygwin, gcc, eclipse, boot loader - in short, everything you need to start 
developing for the LPC2000 family. Give it a try, you won't be dissapointed (except, may be, by the 
startup time of Eclipse - it's written in JAVA entirely).

HTH,
Jens