Create Project

Create a new eide project.

There are many ways to create a new project.

Type	Description
Empty Project	Create an empty project
Internal Template	Use built-in project template to create a new project
Local Template	Create a new project by local project template file(*.ept)
From Remote Repository	Download project template from remote git repository and create new project

Empty Project

In this section, we will help you to create an empty cortex-m project.

Click New Project -> Empty Project, a window will be pop-up, you need choose a project type.
In this tutorial we select cortex-m, then we need input a project name.
Then we need select the project location.
And then, the new project will be create, and eide will pop-up a notification.
Switch workspace, the new project will be load.

Now, an empty project has been created.

Move eide to second side bar

You can drag the eide icon to the right sidebar on vscode.
This makes the layout of the view more compact.
Reference: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_64#_new-side-panel

We need configure compiler before build.

Default compiler is gcc, you can switch compiler for cortex-m project, we support gcc/armcc/armclang.

Field Name	Description
CPU Type	Processor Type, like: `cortex-m0`, `cortex-m3`, `cortex-m4`
Linker Script File Path	gcc linker script (`.lds/.ld`)
Builder Options	more advance compiler options

At least we need configure CPU Type and Linker Script File Path.

Now we can add some source file to project.

Move to Project Resource and open context menu by right-click.
Click Add File to add some source files.
For this demo: we copied 2 files from other projects

Ok, all sources files have been added to project, like this.

If there are some c header files, we need to add IncludePath

All ready, now we only need to click the Build button to start compiling.

A builder task will launch, and the log will be output to Output Panel.