Re:CodeSourcery, DriverLib and first steps

I'm a newbie in programming Cortex but i wonder about some things:

1. Why ravaz suggests to download cygwin and then replace the make.exe? It doesn't help. I left make.exe as it was and added cygwin/bin path to Windows environment variables (Control Panel - System Properties - Advanced - Enviornment Variables). Now the make works and it doesn't complain about missing "uname" and "rm" (happens on make clean).

2. What's the reason of using Java based Eclipse? IMHO it's a waste of resources (memory, time, etc). And this workspace thing is something i just can't understand - why should i make a new workspace and import some project and not create simple projects like all other IDE-s do. Anyway, i decided to use Programmers Notepad. It works fine - you just have to define some commands (make, make all, make clean, program). I dont know about debugging tools, but if you use bootloader, debugging is not an option anyway.

Post edited by: totenhose, at: 2008/07/19 11:40