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Nymau
Nymau

Reputation: 144

How to configure Visual Studio Code to build a project with IAR compiler?

I want to use Visual Studio Code as my main IDE, but I want to compile my code with IAR's compiler.

How could I configure VSCode ?

I found this extension but the documentation is too poor.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 7294

Answers (4)

alexheslop1
alexheslop1

Reputation: 164

There are now two official IAR plugins for VSCode which make things much easier:

https://www.iar.com/knowledge/support/technical-notes/general/using-visual-studio-code-with-iar-embedded-workbench/

Upvotes: 5

Denis Shienkov
Denis Shienkov

Reputation: 527

For this, you can port you project to the custom build system (non iarbuild), e.g. a best choose is the Qbs. The Qbs support a lot of architectures and the toolchains (include IAR, KEIL and so on). In this case you can then use any IDE which support the Qbs, e.g. such as VSCode or QtCreator, and to open your project in any of these IDEs.

Both IDEs support only the GDB debugging, because the C-Spy debuger is a proptietary technology, which has not the public datasheets.

Upvotes: 0

crifan
crifan

Reputation: 14328

Yes, the extension politoleo.iar is indeed NOT good.

-> I found a better one (will try it in future by myself):

Enjoy it !

Upvotes: 1

Jordan Basheski
Jordan Basheski

Reputation: 1

What I did is setting some environment variables in settings.json; then in tasks.json I created shell tasks that call the IarBuild.exe & IarIdePm.exe with appropriate values (see the documentation on the command line options)...

So now, I can use VSCode for navigation & editing, but the compilation is done by the EWARM.

The only thing that I haven't figure out yet is how to make C-Spy work from within VSCode...

Currently when I want to debug, I just launch the EWARM and debug from there...

here is a screenshot:Screenshot of settings.json and tasks.json

Upvotes: 0

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