toolchain for K60

[Nima]

hi

I've been browsing the freescale site for toolchain support for the K60.

Obviously, there is CW10.4 and IAR being very much mentioned here.

But, I was wondering whether there is just plain GCC cross compiler than can be used for this purpose?  Our organization is not a big fan of GUIs for development and we just prefer to use a simpler environment.

Anyhow with experience on using one?

I'm also looking into evaluating FreeRTOS. Anyone with any guidance as to the best toolchain to use (preferably free and simple)?

Thanks

[BlackNight · Accepted solution]

Hi Nima,

yes, of course you can use plain GCC.

The following article explains how to do this:

DIY Free Toolchain for Kinetis: Part 1 – GNU ARM Build Tools | MCU on Eclipse

About FreeRTOS: if you follow the above article, then you will notice that I'm using sucessfully FreeRTOS with gcc (and as well with other tool chains, with and without IDE's). It is all free and simple. :-)

I hope this helps.

[Nima]

Wow, that's great - thank you!

I'll take a look it and report back ....