The end of the road for CodeWarrior?

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The end of the road for CodeWarrior?

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buckeyeman
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Here is a link to the Nokia site with regard to CodeWarrior: http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/resources/tools_and_sdks/codewarrior/

Looks like the end of the road has been reached...
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buckeyeman
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OK, then why did Freescaler "Voxan" write this reply sometime ago regarding CodeWarrior support:

"Hi there,

congratulations for you game, seems amazing...

Anyway, CW for Windows technology has been sold to Nokia a while back and therefor Freescale will NOT develop this tool chain any further. If you want to check with Nokia, you may want to contat forum nokia on their web site

Hope this helps...

Regards

 
T"

Am I missing something here? Thx!

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Lundin
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The history as I understand it, is roughly this:

There was a company which made compilers called Metrowerks. They supported all kind of platforms, such as various microcontrollers, PC and video games.

For 5-6 years ago, Freescale (Motorola back then) were losing ground to their competitors in the 8-bit microcontroller market. Freescale had fairly competitive prices on the micros, but the competition had both cheap micros and cheap tools. Freescale had no tools of their own, you had to use 3rd party tools, such as the ones provided by Metrowerks.

To meet the competition, Freescale buys Metrowerks and takes over control of all products. As a result from this, Codewarrior soon became cheaper and cheaper, and you can even use it for free with some limitations.

However, Freescale was only interested in compilers for their own microcontrollers. Naturally they didn't want to support ST micros etc, why provide tools to competitors? Also, they had no interest in video games, Windows compilers etc. Every product that Metrowerks provided that wasn't related to Freescale products was either sold off or made obsolete.
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peg
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Hi,

The description by Lundin I believe to be fairly correct.
I would find it EXTREMELY unlikely the Codewarrior for Freescale micros will be stopping anytime in the near future.
See here for a very concise timeline on Codewarrior.

What is true is that all of the other types of Codewarrior that were sold off are either dead or dying.

Does anyone know of a non Freescale version of Codewarrior that has been updated in, say, the last three years?





Message Edited by peg on 2008-10-24 08:08 AM
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J2MEJediMaster
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I was an employee back when the outfit was called Metrowerks, and made the best development tools for the Macintosh at the time. What Lundin and peg said are correct.

More to the point, the CodeWarrior for Windows technology (and some wireless IP) was sold off to Nokia and others, and still other technologies that didn't fit the embedded market were sold to other vendors or discontinued. Whether these people support what they bought is their decision, as it's their property now. This is why I also had the word embedded in my answer, because Freescale still owns those technologies, and uses the CodeWarrior software tools to help promote its MCUs being as a complete silicon/software solution for the customer.

---Tom


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J2MEJediMaster
Specialist I
That's Nokia, who bought CodeWarrior's wireless IP some years ago. If they're switching to another toolset, that's their decision. CodeWarrior embedded tools are alive and well here at Freescale.

---Tom
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