topic Re: Including a binary file in CodeWarrior for MCU

Including a binary file

cessna — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:02:43 GMT

I'd like to include an html file in a project written in 'C' for an HC05, its a small (600byte) status page.

I've tried setting my .htm file to "Ignored By Make" in the Standard Settings (Alt-F5) - "File-Mappings" but the included .htm file is still read and rejected, any ideas?

Re: Including a binary file

CompilerGuru — Thu, 29 May 2008 09:57:18 GMT

With changed File-Mappings you can only control how the ide treats the file, it wont download the content of the file to the target tough.
I think the simplest approach, and probably the best one too, is to store the content of the file as string literal as part of the application. So it wont be a separate file anymore, but everything is straight forward, no custom build steps.
If you really want to put the content of a file into the application, then the only way I see is to create an srecord out of the html page and then include the srecord in the prm.
The linker supports to include srecords, and the conversion from a binary file to an srecord can be done with the burner in a batch burner file.
I'm not going into too many details, as I think the simple code it as string literal approach is still the best one :smileyhappy:.

Daniel

BTW: I think processor expert has a bean for such purpose, but processor expert is not an option with the HC05. I'm sure there are many tools on the web too to encode a file into a C source file.

Re: Including a binary file

bigmac — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:05:28 GMT

Hello,

Using a similar aproach to Daniel's suggestion, and assuming your compiler/linker also supports the inclusion of .ASM assembly fiiles, a further alternative might be to incorporate the data as assembly directives. For CW, this would be a series of lines of the following format -

dc.b "Line data",$0D,$0A ; or whatever line termination is needed

Regards,

Mac