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Raisonance Tools for ARM 4. Creating a project
4. Creating a project
Assembly and C applications can be written using the free GNU GCC toolchain. This chapter gives an
overview of how to create an ARM project with Ride7.
Notes for users of other GCC toolchains: You may have to modify the GCC_EXEC_PREFIX
environment variable to rectify compatibility issues between different GCC toolchains. If you have this
kind of problem, look at the GCC documentation to see the usage of this variable.
4.1 Example project
Ride7 for ARM provides several example projects that are ready to run. One of them is very simple and
you should look at it first. To open this project, use Project > Open Project in Ride7 and select the
project testR7.rprj. For standard installations of Ride7, this file is found in <Ride>\Examples\ARM\Test.
The example is described in source file comments. Other examples are located in the same directory.
4.2 Creating a new project
All RKit users can use the GNU tools to create a project, as explained in section 4.2.1.
Enterprise versions can use the Generic compiler interface, as explained in section 4.2.2.
4.2.1 Using the GNU tools
1. In Ride7, go to the menu Project > New Project.
2. Select New application to be built, then your target processor.
3. Choose the application name and the path to the main application folder.
4. Click on Finish to generate your application. Your application project is now created.
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