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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Makefile or IDE?
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 13:51:09 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2021-12-04, David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
>
>> I succeeded to use CMake for cross-compiling on PC Linux for Raspi OS
>> Linux, but the compiler identification for a raw metal target was not
>> happy when the trial compilation could not link a run file using the
>> Linux run file creation model.
>
> That is kind of what I thought.  CMake sounds like a good solution if
> you want to make a program that compiles on Linux with native gcc, and
> also with MSVC on Windows, and perhaps a few other native build
> combinations.  But it is not really suited for microcontroller builds as
> far as I can see.  (Again, I haven't tried it much, and don't want to do
> it injustice by being too categorical.)

I use CMake for cross-compilation for microcontroller stuff. I don't
use it for my own code, but there are a few 3rd-party libraries that
use it, and I don't have any problems configuring it to use a cross
compiler.

--
Grant