Windows/Linux/Mac Eclipse plugin to compile and upload arduino sketches

[jim_s]

I would love to pick your brain a bit sometime, Jantje.  I also use Eclipse CDT for the software development side of PSoC projects. (PSoC Creator compiles C, but not C++, and doesn't have many of the advanced features that CDT provides, whereas Eclipse allows compiling C++, along with all the Eclipse/CDT bells and whistles.)  PSoC Creator must be used to define the configurable hardware, assign pins, etc, however - so it's a 2-part process - hardware definition/configuration in PSoC Creator, then software development in Eclipse, then upload (including writing the hardware config) in PSoC Creator.

I have a baseline Eclipse project setup (configured according to some information provided by some helpful and smart folks in the community!), and I base the Eclipse side of new PSoC projects off of the baseline Eclipse project - involving some renaming, copying, pasting, etc.  I'd LOVE to be able to setup some type of plugin or wizard that would let me create the CDT project from an existing PSoC Project w/o all of the manual intervention), and could envision that working similar to Sloeber in some respects.

BTW, I can't adequately describe how excited I am to hear that you're working on a new version of Sloeber!!  You are truly a Knight in Shining Armor!! :-)

[Jantje]

(I made a long answer and then boom->gone. sorry now only the short answer)
There are many changes in CDT right now.
You should take a look at gnu mcu plugin that is currently being integrated.

[Juraj]

(I made a long answer and then boom->gone. sorry now only the short answer)
There are many changes in CDT right now.
You should take a look at gnu mcu plugin that is currently being integrated.

Jantie, check Drafts

https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?action=profile;area=showdrafts;u=14686

[Jantje]

I do not understand your PSoc story. I have a software background, I don't know much hardware related stuff ;-)
What I can say though is that IMHO CDT has 2 main problems.
1) Managed build (the thing that make the makefiles) is .... ready for replacement.
2) CDT does not work "out of the box"
Sloeber is build upon Managed build and adds "out of the box" for Arduino boards.
If I read your PSoc story I think you are hit by both issues.

Managed build is a big issue and the replacement is being worked on. If your workflow/requirements would be known we can take them along (no guarantees but not knowing them is guaranteed not to be taken along)
IMHO A video showing and explaining the process is a great way.

Working "out of the box" is dependent on Managed build so it is not useful to work on it.

At this point in time 2 big changes are done in CDT.
One is integration of cmake (I do not know whether you will have to create the cmake files yourself) and the other is the integration of gnu mcu plugin.
You should take a look at these. For sure the gnu mcu plugin.

[Jantje]

@juraj thanks for the tip :-)