ChibiOS Free Embedded RTOS

Giovanni wrote:No doubt is very nice, I just wish it supported also a makefile-mode like Eclipse does, that would make adoption easier. You cannot just assume that new users just switch to a different way to work immediately.

I think if you tell to the emwork author your wish he might consider it
And he also is working on v 3.0 now. It would be interesting to have both your new versions simultaneously

I am sure he knows

Giovanni

I had a lot of contact to the Em::Blocks author and he's more of aware of my and Giovannis wish to have the Makefile support. But it won't happen soon.
At least he added the ChibiOS/RT Project wizard and debugging capabilities

The missing makefile support really is the only reason why I don't use it myself.


~ Tectu

Just in case
In thread viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2386&p=19301#p19301 I put a project that includes basic template from here (actually by emblocks, but they are almost same) + simple shell + Console server by Giovanni. May be it is not perfect, but it works

Tectu wrote:I had a lot of contact to the Em::Blocks author

Could you ask him when the broken blacklist service on his forum will be fixed or replaced? I know he is aware about this, but I still can't register over there.
(Giovanni is thinking now that may be it is not really broken... )

Tectu, is there any chance that you could create a template based on ChibiOS v 3.0 /RT & /nil
I tried to transfer my project working with v.2.6.6 into v.3.0 and got full fiasco...

Tectu wrote:I had a lot of contact to the Em::Blocks author and he's more of aware of my and Giovannis wish to have the Makefile support. But it won't happen soon.

No, I'm not!

If I knew then I would told you that it already can use external makefiles and that a lot of people are using it this way.



and if you have chosen the make file option, you will get new build options like this:




If you use external makefiles with EmBlocks 2.30 please update the compiler DLL because of some bug fixes.

http://www.emblocks.org/forum/viewtopic ... t=10#p3150

So, no it won't happen soon because it is already there (right from the start).

BTW
- It also supports batch build from command line.
- The blacklist problem is solved

Hello Gerard!

I am very ashamed and confused at the same time. Since when is this feature there? If this feature works nicely I will totally move to Em::Blocks to do 100% of my embedded development. Therefore I will provide a ton of ChibiOS/RT + uGFX examples and demo projects within the following weeks.


~ Tectu

Is there also a inclusion directories "discover" function like Eclipse? Eclipse does that by parsing the output log searching for "-I<path>".

Probably that is the only thing required if makefiles are already supported.

Giovanni

Tectu wrote: I will provide a ton of ChibiOS/RT + uGFX examples and demo projects within the following weeks.

That would be great!!! I hope there will be projects for ChibiOS v.3.0 too.

Chudik wrote:That would be great!!! I hope there will be projects for ChibiOS v.3.0 too.

Anything special you would like to see? I have most of the common ST & Olimex boards here.


~ Tectu

Tectu wrote:Anything special you would like to see?

Wow!!! Special for me?!!!
I don't think there should be anything special. Even just simple blinking example is a good start.
However, here what I think might be very useful for every newbie (including me )

• Simple blinking.
• Console server that includes "Blinking" + shell + output text to serial interface in synchronous manner. With Giovanni's code I was able to create this type off application as a part of my project. Will be happy, if you find it useful and clean it to more correct way. Since I'm a newbie in Chibi my code is not perfect.
• The board button polling with changing blinking period, for example. I believe it will require debouncing processing.
• The board button interrupt processing with same result
• Sane with sleeping/standby mode for minimizing power consumption.
• Same for RT and nil. The "nil" mode is very interesting for devices with short memory like STM32L0 - fully static threads might be enough for a lot of projects. I have Discovery L053 board with eInk display, it is great, but not for basics learning curve, because the display controlled by a second STM32L152. If you Discovery board has its display connected directly to the chip - interface to the display example will bу very useful.
  I use another one on my own board with OLED display and 3 buttons connected to SPI of my Nucleo board. Used LCD3310 interface example as a template. Will be happy to share this part of the code, but it is not finished yet.
• Examples of using all peripherals (SPI is already shown for display): ADC, DAC, PWM from timers....

Ideally - to have a set of examples like TI has for its processors, but it is a lot of work made by their employees sitting on salaries. I'm not sure the ChibiOS/EM::Blocks community can do the same, but if you make this start it will be great. I saw people share their projects in here. With some coordination from experienced man like you we can have a good set of projects that could be used by next newbies