topic Compilers and Environments - What Do You Use? in Other NXP Products https://community.nxp.com/t5/Other-NXP-Products/Compilers-and-Environments-What-Do-You-Use/m-p/206678#M2236 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Howdy,</P><P></P><P>I thought I'd post a message to try and gauge what you other people are using in terms of compilers and development environments.</P><P></P><P>At present, I'm using IAR EWARM however I must say that for the price, it is so very very poor. It would seem that the developers are still liking a Windows 95 style look and feel and I've found that half of the menu options are permanently greyed out or unavailable. As for debugging and moving breakpoints, I won't get started on that one.</P><P></P><P>I've since had a play with a compiler called Crossworks made by a company called Rowley Associates which seems a lot more professional in terms of looks, the general feel of the application and it seems to produce some nice, optimized code.</P><P></P><P>I attempted the CodeWarrior environment but I couldn't get used to the Eclipse environment and it just seemed a bit messy.</P><P></P><P>I feel anything less than Visual Studio quality is unacceptable these days.</P><P></P><P>Thoughts please?</P><P></P><P>Kev</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:27:55 GMT weblar 2012-10-02T18:27:55Z Compilers and Environments - What Do You Use? https://community.nxp.com/t5/Other-NXP-Products/Compilers-and-Environments-What-Do-You-Use/m-p/206678#M2236 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Howdy,</P><P></P><P>I thought I'd post a message to try and gauge what you other people are using in terms of compilers and development environments.</P><P></P><P>At present, I'm using IAR EWARM however I must say that for the price, it is so very very poor. It would seem that the developers are still liking a Windows 95 style look and feel and I've found that half of the menu options are permanently greyed out or unavailable. As for debugging and moving breakpoints, I won't get started on that one.</P><P></P><P>I've since had a play with a compiler called Crossworks made by a company called Rowley Associates which seems a lot more professional in terms of looks, the general feel of the application and it seems to produce some nice, optimized code.</P><P></P><P>I attempted the CodeWarrior environment but I couldn't get used to the Eclipse environment and it just seemed a bit messy.</P><P></P><P>I feel anything less than Visual Studio quality is unacceptable these days.</P><P></P><P>Thoughts please?</P><P></P><P>Kev</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:27:55 GMT https://community.nxp.com/t5/Other-NXP-Products/Compilers-and-Environments-What-Do-You-Use/m-p/206678#M2236 weblar 2012-10-02T18:27:55Z