VikiLABS. July 8, 2017

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1 VikiLABS Installing and Setting-Up Eclipse IDE to run Your First FreeRTOS Project (on a Windows PC) July 8, Installations 1. Download the latest version of FreeRTOS from org or directly from files/latest/download?source=files which is available as both a standard zip file (.zip), and as a self extracting zip file (.exe). 2. Download Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers from org/downloads/eclipse-packages/. Extract the zip file. Save the extracted folder in an easily accessible location such as the Desktop. 3. Eclipse requires Java to function. If Java has not been installed or updated on your computer, you have to download and install with the latest Java update from the manual.jsp. Close all web browsers while installing Java. 1

2 4. Make sure Java is included in Path of your Windows PC. This is accessed by typing System Variables in the search box on the Start Menu. Choose Edit the System Environment Variables. Click Environment Variables In System Variable, Choose Path and include the location of the java installation, e.g. C:\ProgramFiles\ Java\jdk1.xx_xx\bin as shown in Fig. 1. Restart your computer after installing or updating Java. 5. Obtaining the Compiler: The compilation tools are not included as part of the Eclipse distribution and must be downloaded and installed separately. The installation requires internet access. To install CDT, Open Eclipse IDE by navigating to the location of the extracted Eclipse folder and opening eclipse.exe to launch the Eclipse IDE. Navigate to Help = Install New Software as shown in Fig Click the Add tab and choose CDT... Tick CDT Main Features and Uncategorised box as seen in Fig. 3. Click Next. 7. Installation details will now appear as shown in Fig. 4, click Next 8. Accept License agreement. Click Finish. CDT will begin to install as shown in Fig After completion of installation, you would be prompted to restart Eclipse. Choose Yes 10. The last installation will be the MingW compilation tools. Download MingW from files/ and install as shown in Fig After set up installation, the window in Fig. 7 will appear, mark mingw-developer-tool, mingw32-base, mingw32-gcc-g++ and msys-base for installation as shown. 12. Then Click on Installation = Apply Changes. The window in Fig. 8 will appear, click Apply. 13. Installation will commence as shown in Fig. 9. 2

3 14. After installation is completed, close all MingW installation boxes. The MingW files are found in the C:\MinGW directory. Add this to Windows System Variables Path by following the same procedure when Java JDK was added to path (Fig. 10). 15. The Eclipse project for the FreeRTOS application is located in the FreeRTOS/Demo/WIN32-MingW folder. It s now time to import it into the Eclipse IDE. Figure 1 Figure 2 3

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8 2 Importing the FreeRTOS simulator project into an Eclipse IDE To import the FreeRTOS simulator project into Eclipse, 1. Launch the Eclipse IDE if closed. 2. Select Import from the Eclipse File menu. A dialogue box will appear as shown in Fig In the dialogue box, select General = Existing Projects into Workspace. Click Next. Another dialogue box will appear that allows you to navigate to and select a root directory. Navigate to the location where the FreeRTOS folder is, Select FreeRTOS/ Demo/WIN32-MingW as the directory - this will reveal a project called RTOSDemo which is the project that should be imported (Fig. 12). 4. Click Finish. To view the RTOSDemo project, Close the Welcome window and open the Project Explorer Window as shown in Fig Finally, build the project, it should give no errors. Then Run. To display the console so that the output can be seen while running, navigate to Window = Show View = Console (Fig. 14). 6. To stop running, click on Terminate (Fig. 15). 3 Unresolved Inclusion Error If unresolved inclusion errors appears next to the include statements, do the following: 1. Navigate to Properties = C/C++ Build = Text Chain Editor. Ensure that Current toolchain is set to MinGW GCC and Current builder is CDT Internal Builder (Fig. 16). 8

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12 Figure Then navigate to Properties = C/C++ General = Paths and Symbols. In the Includes Tab, select GNU C. Click on Add (Fig 17). Add the following to the directory: C:\MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\5.3.0\include C:\MinGW\include C:\MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\5.3.0\include-fixed 12

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