Install Utility Tools
Install external tools, programs
Utility Tools
We provide some external utility tools on github repository.
You can install these tools by eide, as follows:
These tools will be installed to <user_home>/.eide/tools folder, and eide will export bin path to extension system environment variables.
Check Tool Location
We provide a terminal type for vscode: EIDE Terminal.
Open an eide terminal, use shell command to list all internal eide System Environment Variables:
- Windows (Powershell)
- Windows (CMD)
- Linux
ls env:setenvExecute above command to list all env items, then you can check your tool's location:
Install Toolchains On Linux/Macos
Linux software mostly has dependencies. Please use system package manager to install linux softwares.
Or consider use xpack package manager to install them.
Install toolchain by system package manager
- Ubuntu/Debian
| name | command | description |
|---|---|---|
| Small Device C Compiler(sdcc) | apt install sdcc | Used to compile 8051 stm8 projects |
| GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain(gcc-arm-none-eabi) | apt install gcc-arm-none-eabi | Used to compile cortex-m projects |
- MacOS
| name | command | description |
|---|---|---|
| Small Device C Compiler(sdcc) | brew install sdcc | Used to compile 8051 stm8 projects |
| GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain(gcc-arm-none-eabi) | brew install gcc-arm-none-eabi | Used to compile cortex-m projects |
Install toolchain by xpack package manager
You need to install xpm first, See docs: https://xpack-dev-tools.github.io/riscv-none-elf-gcc-xpack/docs/install/#prerequisites
| name | command | description |
|---|---|---|
| RISC-V GCC Toolchain (riscv-none-embed-gcc) | xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/riscv-none-elf-gcc | for riscv mcu project |
| GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain(gcc-arm-none-eabi) | xpm install @xpack-dev-tools/arm-none-eabi-gcc | for cortex-m project |
These commands need to be executed in the root directory of the current project and need to be initialized by xpm init