Am 14.05.13 08:47, schrieb Michael Schnell:
On 05/13/2013 08:07 PM, Michael Ring wrote:
... pic32mx controllers ...
BTW.:
AFAIK, the PIC controllers (16 and 32 Bit) use a propriety debug
interface to be accessed by "PICKit" an "ICD-3" adapters. They do use
a gnu based (though propriety made, and payed) C-compiler and linker
. AFAI understand they use gdb under the hood and as there is the
("NETBeans" based "MPLab-X" IDE that runs as well on Windows as on
Linux, it should be possible to use the Lazarus to debug a PIC32
device, if you can set up the Lazarus-gdb-interface appropriately
I did not yet invest much time in finding out if PICKit supports a
GDBServer, but pic32mx chips do support jtag based debugging/flashing
and openocd has pic32mx support. (see
http://www.microchip.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=346142, implementation started
in 2008)
.
Do you plan for allowing PIC32 development using Lazarus ? I suppose
for that you not only need the gdb interface, but also a way to
integrate MPLab-X originated library files to be integrated in the RTL
to have the processor even start running. )
For me my gdb-interface to lazarus still has some rough edges, at the
moment I mainly use gdb --tui or ddd for debugging low level (for
cortex-m0) until I have figured out in more detail which rough edges I
still have to cover in the lazarus interface.
When this is done you can use Lazarus for development, I do my coding
already in Lazarus, and the debugging if I am on a cortex-m3 chip and do
not need to go too deep into the implementation.
About MPlab Libs: I like to do things low-level so I prefer to implement
my own objects for gpio and spi,.. as I need them.
Using the pre-build libs might be a lot easier but I am doing this for
fun, my personal goal is not complete coverage of all aspects of a
microcontroller but instead I want to be able to use a pic32, a
cortex-m0 or cortex-m3 based on my hobby project restrictions, for
example lqfp chips are hard to solder (at least for me, I am getting old
;-) ) and you need to take a lot of care when creating PCB's so I prefer
either LPC-81x for very small projects that need only few lines of code
and in future I would like to use pic32mx chips in soic or tqfp
packages, they have roughly the same features as the cortex-m0/3 chips
but are available in a lot of different packages.
For Cortex-M3 (which I currently use for main development) I use the
excellent easy-mx pro v7 board from micro-e, but the translation to
self-etched boards is difficult because those both nxp and stm only have
lqfp for their cortex-m3 chips.
And/or do you plan to allow for MPLab-X projects to integrate fpc
generated units ?
Definitely no, sorry ;-)
Thanks,
-Michael
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