Feature Request for LPC Expresso IDE enviroment.

[lpcware]

Content originally posted in LPCWare by SB_telco on Wed Nov 19 04:42:47 MST 2014
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### LPCXPRESSO FEATURE REQUEST ###
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Please added the following features to LPCxpresso

A:  One Shot : save all -> Compile -> Program Targer MCU : As 2 LPCxpresso Menu Button
B:  Setting : Linker  section:  Generate in addtion to .axf files , .bin and .hex files

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A : On the tool bar in LPCxpresso a two buttons that does the following.

Button 1  : One shot  Save -->Compile > program host.

All output text from all stages is dumped out in the console window including the programming of the traget MCU.
1.  Save all edited text files.
2.  Compiles all files down to a .axf file 
3.  Loads the compiled .axf file into target host MCU

Button 2

Sets up the items required for "Button 1  : One shot  Save -->Compile > program host." to work.
            Which LPCxpresso release mode to use .
            All the programming settings required to program the MCU . Basically a copy of the settings from the "Program Flash" settings menu
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B:  In the settings page under the linker section make it so that there are tick boxes so that a user can select to optionally build in addition to the axf file , bin and hex files

At the moment I have to manually enter

arm-none-eabi-size ${BuildArtifactFileName}; arm-none-eabi-objcopy -O ihex ${BuildArtifactFileName} ${BuildArtifactFileBaseName}.hex ; arm-none-eabi-objcopy -O binary ${BuildArtifactFileName} ${BuildArtifactFileBaseName}.bin ; checksum -d ${BuildArtifactFileBaseName}.bin;

This should be a built in feature.

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This I feel will greatly improve LPXpresso.

Best wishes
Simon

[lpcware]

Content originally posted in LPCWare by lpcxpresso-support on Wed Nov 19 05:14:00 MST 2014
Thanks for your feedback

1. This is mostly what the "Debug" button on the Quickstart panel does (also mirrored on the toolbar as "Debug project"). It saves all files in the project, builds the projects, and starts a debug session (downloading the built axf file). I think it is a specific requirement of yours to then go and program the application to flash without debugging. Can you explain why this would be useful to the 10's of thousands of other LPCXpresso users?

2. This is a very specific request, to create hex AND binary files. You only have to do it once per project. I don't think this will 'greatly improve LPCXpresso'.