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defining an external toolchain [message #730113]

Tue, 27 September 2011 16:25

Mike Turner

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Registered: September 2011

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I've looked in the help system and all round the GUI, and I cannot see how to do this on the WinXP implementtion, though I've met it in the Linux one.

Mike

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Re: defining an external toolchain [message #730400 is a reply to message #730113]

Wed, 28 September 2011 10:08

Mike Turner

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Registered: September 2011

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I have found the following text online :-

"# Eclipse DOES NOT include compilers and tools. You must install compilers for any language (C/C++, Fortran, LaTeX) you wish to write code for BEFORE downloading Eclipse."

I do have a compiler/linker on my XP box but it is a DOS one. Does Eclipse find all XP-installed toolchains when it installs, and thus can I not in fact use a pre-Windows toolchain at all?

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Re: defining an external toolchain [message #730422 is a reply to message #730400]

Wed, 28 September 2011 11:22

Axel Mueller

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Registered: July 2009

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Mike Turner wrote on Wed, 28 September 2011 12:08

I do have a compiler/linker on my XP box but it is a DOS one. Does Eclipse find all XP-installed toolchains when it installs, and thus can I not in fact use a pre-Windows toolchain at all?

Which toolchain do you have? Eclipse supports on Windows MinGW, Cygwin and VisualC++ out of the box. For everything else you will need an additional plugin.

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Re: defining an external toolchain [message #734195 is a reply to message #730113]

Fri, 07 October 2011 01:32

Alex I.

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Registered: September 2011

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Mike is right. You need to find a plug in that supports your particular compiler. I have had to find a plugin to support C30 (a microprocessor architecture). I'm currently having problems as well. Eclipse now sees my tool chain, allows me to create that style project, but I cannot compile! The error I get is the following.

**** Build of configuration Hex for project Pic_second_toolchain ****

**** Internal Builder is used for build ****
pic30-gcc.exe -mcpu=30F1010 -g -c -O0 -x c ..\src\file1.c -o src\file1.o
..\src\file1.c:10:20: error: iostream: No such file or directory
Build error occurred, build is stopped
Time consumed: 136 ms.

I'm not sure if you guys can help, but it would be appreciated. I attempted placing iostream in the folder itself, but that was unsuccessful.

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