{"id":6896,"date":"2020-05-01T21:48:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T19:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playembedded.org\/?p=6896"},"modified":"2024-02-04T12:21:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T11:21:31","slug":"assembling-chibistudio-from-scratch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playembedded.org\/blog\/assembling-chibistudio-from-scratch\/","title":{"rendered":"Assembling ChibiStudio from scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"

About<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Recently I had to assemble ChibiStudio for Windows from scratch and I decided to write down a simple to-do list to be consistent over time. Looking back at the list, it was so detailed I start to think about an article to share this experience and enable everyone to assemble their own environment and maybe get feedback from experts out there and improve our process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Premise<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The need for an IDE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

ChibiStudio was an idea by Giovanni (the creator of ChibiOS) to enable the community to easily ramp up with ChibiOS. It’s basically an ensemble of free and open-source software and some custom configurations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I had to take over this process I was pointed to the “Elder Scroll”, an article from the old wiki of chibios.org written in 2008 and later updated in 2012 but now discontinued. Even if aged, the article still provided some references.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The path constraint<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If you ever installed ChibiStudio on Windows, you will surely remember that you need to extract it having its root folder located at C:\\ChibiStudio. This constraint comes from some hard-coded configuration in the Eclipse file that cannot be modified programmatically: for some of them, you need to do some specific procedure from Eclipse’s GUI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are going to create your own ChibiStudio setup, decide the location of your toolchain before starting the procedure because it would be complicated to relocate it afterward. from here and out we will refer to this location as [ChibiStudio root]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A small side note, I actually created a semi-automatic mechanism that allows relocating your ChibiStudio setup but I will talk about that in another How-to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us start<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Eclipse installation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

ChibiStudio is built starting from Eclipse IDE for Java Developers<\/em> and subsequently extended with the C\/C++ Development Tools<\/em>. The Java version comes with some features that ChibiStudio uses to generate the board files. Picking up the version for C\/C++ Developers you need to install and configure more things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nowadays Eclipse comes with an installer we strongly discourage it in this case because the setup is not portable. My suggestion is to pick up the package from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Differently from the past Eclipse now includes directly Java. So now you just have to download Eclipse IDE for Java Developers 2022-12-R<\/a> and extract it in the directory [ChibiStudio root]\/eclipse<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Installing Eclipse additional packages<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Launch eclipse from [ChibiStudio root]\/eclipse\/eclipse.exe<\/em>. At the first launch, he will ask about a workspace: it’s time to prepare things for a later step: choose the folder of your final workspace and check “Use this as the default and do not ask again”<\/p>\n\n\n

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Creating the workspace for the very first time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In my case, I am preparing the Workspace User that would be later finalized and duplicated to create all the additional workspaces released with ChibiStudio. The next step is to install all the required packages to Eclipse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go in the dropdown menu Help -> Install new Software<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Installing new packages in ChibiStudio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Select the repository associated with your release (in my case 2020-03 – http:\/\/download.eclipse.org\/releases\/2020-03<\/em>) and install the following packages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n