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Setting up Sublime Text to build your project

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd
Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.
Glennan Carnie

For many years embedded development was dominated by complex integrated development environments (IDEs) that hide away all the nasty, messy details of a typical embedded software project.

Recently, with the rapidly accelerating adoption of agile techniques in embedded systems, there has been a move away from integrated development environments towards smaller, simpler, individual tools.  Tools like CMake, Rake and SCons are used to manage build configurations.  Container facilities like Docker provide lightweight environments for build and test.  And developers are free […]

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The C build process

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd
Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.
Glennan Carnie

In this article we look at the C build process – that is, how we get from C source files to executable code, programmed on the target.  It wasn’t so long ago this was common knowledge (the halcyon days of the hand-crafted make file!) but modern IDEs are making this knowledge ever-more arcane.

Compilation

The first stage of the build process is compilation.

The compiler is responsible for allocating memory for definitions (static and automatic) and generating opcodes from program statements. A relocatable […]

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