[sdiy] Using Cortex Mx Arms in Synth DIY

[aankrom]

How about Mac OSX support? My XP laptop is dead & my two Dells (XP SP2) 
have been neglected. I have done zero experimentation with any 
processors for synth-DIY or anything for that matter, but some day I 
want to. I may just break down and buy a pawnshop laptop.

AA

On Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:57:29 -0800, John Speth wrote:
>> > Yagarto is completely free. It is a community supported gcc for 
>> the
> arm
>> > and right now I believe it works under Windows, Linux and MacOS. 
>> It
> can
>> > be connected up to Eclipse and provides debugging. Don't really 
>> know
> if
>> > I would call this easy to use.
>> >
>> > Rowley CrossWorks is almost free ($150 for a personal license).
> Again,
>> > this is gcc, but comes with a set of much improved libraries and 
>> it
> does
>> > have a nice user interface (IDE). I have used Rowley to work with
> Arms
>> > in the past, however, I don't know if I would call it easy to use.
>>
>> It's also possible to develop using a stripped-down command-line ARM
> GCC
>> toolchain + text editor + makefiles. If you don't care for top-heavy
> GUI
>> IDEs then this works very well.
>
> That's a good exercise that I recently tried.  Lots of details to
> consider though but there's plenty of info on the web when you get
> stuck.  That's where the "free" tools don't seem so free, that is if 
> you
> haven't got the know-how or support to do it yourself.  That step 
> will
> set you up for using Eclipse (like Mentor's CodeSourcery Lite) as an 
> IDE
> which, again, requires a ton of setup steps.
>
> Can anyone comment on the code output efficiency of the ARM GCC?  
> I've
> used the IAR EWARM and it produces high quality and highly optimized
> code.  Does ARM GCC come close to it (or better it)?  I haven't done 
> a
> side by side comparison.
>
> JJS
>
>
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