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Death and Taxes

A project log for Setting up Linux AVR and ARM toolchains

Documenting the steps taken to build a new, clean, Linux development environment.

tmTM 03/05/2014 at 21:431 Comment

I'm not dead, and haven't given up on getting an ARM toolchain up and running: just busy doing my taxes, and spinning my wheels a little on the ARM stuff. I wanted to be able to program the FRDM board using gcc and make before jumping into Eclipse and its Freescale add-ins. In order to do this I need to get hold of a link command file (linker script) to tell the linker how the memory is organized on the FRDM-KL46Z. Googling turned up a ".ld" file for the FRDM-KL25Z, but, given that the 46Z has twice the memory, and given my resolution not to just cut-and-paste-and-hope, it looks like I'll have to learn just enough about linker configuration to hack the file.

An alternative approach is to use the "export to desktop IDE" feature of mbed.org to download a KL46Z project and to pick around in the files looking for something equivalent.

Either way, the prospect of doing this worthy-but-dull stuff has driven me to finish my tax prep.

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