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Anton Kolesov edited this page Jun 2, 2015 · 19 revisions

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  1. Prerequisites

ARC GNU plugins for Eclipse have following requirements to the system:

  • OS: RHEL 6 or Windows 7
  • Eclipse version >= 4.4 (part of Windows installer)
  • CDT version 8.5.0 (part of Windows installer)
  • Java VM version >= 1.6 is required (part of Windows installer)
  • On Linux both 32bit and 64-bit versions of Eclipse are supported, on Windows only 32-bit Eclipse installations are supported. Eclipse 64-bit installation is not supported, so it is required to run 32-bit version of Eclipse on 64-bit Windows versions, to overcome this limitation.
  1. Using installer for Windows

Windows users are advised to use our Windows installer for Eclisepse for GNU Toolchain for IDE, that can be downloaded from this releases page. Installer already contains all of the necessary components.

ARC GNU IDE should be installed in the path no longer than 50 characters and cannot contain white spaces.

![Run ARC_GNU_IDE_1.1.0_win_install.exe] (images/install/run_arc_gnu_1.1.0_win_install.exe.png)

Run ARC_GNU_IDE_1.1.0_win_install.exe

Choose installer paths

Choose installer paths

Installation Completed

Installation Completed

Click "Show details" button

Click "Show details" button

  1. Manual installation on Linux and Windows

To install Eclipse IDE for GNU Toolchain for ARC manually:

  1. Download Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers, that already contains CDT
  2. Download latest ARC plugins for Eclipse
  3. Install ARC plugins into Eclipse

3.1 Downloading latest plugins

User can get this plug-in from website URL https://github.com/foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors/arc_gnu_eclipse/releases, this is an archived version of the GNU ARC Eclipse plug-in update site, the file name is arc_gnu_plugins.zip

![Components of ARC_GNU_IDE_plugins.zip] (images/components_of_arc_gnu_plugins.zip.png)

Components of arc_gnu_plugins.zip

![Components of arc_gnu_plugins.zip/features] (images/Components of arc_gnu_plugins.zip features.png)

Components of arc_gnu_plugins.zip features

![Components of arc_gnu_plugins.zip_plugins] (images/Components of arc_gnu_plugins.zip_plugins.png)

Components of arc_gnu_plugins.zip_plugins

3.2 Installing into Eclipse

To run ARC plugins for Eclipse, it is required to have Target Terminal plugin installed in Eclipse. In Eclipse go to "Help", then "Install new Software", select "Luna" in "Work with" combo box, then select Target Management Terminal which is "An ANSI (vt102) compatible Terminal including plug-ins for Serial, SSH and Telnet connections."

![Installation of Eclipse terminal plugin] (images/install/installation_of_eclipse_terminal_plugin.png)

Installation of Eclipse terminal plugin

After downloading arc_gnu_plugins.zip successfully, user also can install it from local by pointing Eclipse to it: Eclipse -> Install New Software -> Add -> Archive -> select arc_gnu_plugins.zip file. Unzip this archived folder, there will be six components in it.

![Install from local PC] (images/install/install_from_local_pc.png)

Install from local PC

![Check GNU ARC C++ Development Support] (images/install/check_gnu_arc_c++_development_support.png)

Check GNU ARC C++ Development Support

![Get copyright by clicking "more"] (images/install/get_copyright_by_clicking_more.png)

Get copyright by clicking "more"

![Get General Information by clicking "more"] (images/install/get_general_information_by_clicking_more.png)

Get General Information by clicking "more"

![Get License Agreement by clicking "more"] (images/install/get_license_agreement_by_clicking_more.png)

Get License Agreement by clicking "more"

Install Details

10 Install Details

![Accept the terms of license agreement] (images/install/accept_the_terms_of_license_agreement.png)

Accept the terms of license agreement

![Install ARC GNU IDE Plugin] (images/install/install_arc_gnu_ide_plugin.png)

Install ARC GNU IDE Plugin

![Warning about this plugins installation] (images/install/warning_about_this_plugin_installation.png)

Warning about this plugins installation

Restarting Eclipse

Restarting Eclipse

Ignore the Security Warning, and click "Ok", after restarting Eclipse IDE, the installation is finished. If user install plug-in successfully, the "ARC" icon will show up in "About Eclipse".

Plug-in in Eclipse IDE

Plug-in in Eclipse IDE

Click the "ARC" icon; user will get detailed plug-in features information.

![About Eclipse ELF32 Plug-in Features] (images/install/about_eclipse_elf32_plug-in_features.png)

About Eclipse ELF32 Plug-in Features

Click the "Installation Details" button, the Features and Plug-ins will also show up.

ARC GNU plugin Plug-ins

ARC GNU plugin Plug-ins

ARC GNU plugin Features

ARC GNU plugin Features

  1. Updating existing plugin

To update the existing plugin, as shown in the figure below, and the version of this current plugin is for example "1.1.0.201402280630", follow same instructrions as plugin installation.

![ARC GNU plugin Features] (images/install/arc_gnu_plugin_features.png)

ARC GNU plugin Features

![Current ARC GNU IDE plugin] (images/install/current_arc_gnu_ide_plugin.png)

Current ARC GNU IDE plugin

![Installation of latest plugin] (images/install/installation_of_latest_plugin.png)

Installation of latest plugin

![Updated ARC GNU IDE plugin] (images/install/updated_arc_gnu_ide_plugin.png)

Updated ARC GNU IDE plugin

![General Information of the latest plugin] (images/install/general_information_of_the_latest_plugin.png)

General Information of the latest plugin

![Installed details of the latest plugin] (images/install/installed_details_of_the_latest_plugin.png)

Installed details of the latest plugin

![Upate exiting plugins successfully] (images/install/update_existing_plugins_sucessfully.png)

Upate exiting plugins successfully

![Updated ARC GNU plugin Features] (images/install/updated_arc_gnu_plugin_features.png)

Updated ARC GNU plugin Features

![Updated ARC GNU plugin Plug-ins] (images/install/updated_arc_gnu_plugin_plug-ins.png)

Updated ARC GNU plugin Plug-ins

  1. Installing plugin on Linux host

If you plan to connect to UART port on target board with RxTx plugin controlled by IDE you need to change permissions of directory /var/lock in your system. Usually by default only users with root access are allowed to write into this directory, however RxTx tries to write file into this directory, so unless you are ready to run IDE with sudo, you need to allow write access to /var/lock directory for everyone. Note that if /var/lock is a symbolic link to another directory then you need to change permissions for this directory as well. For example to set required permissions on Fedora:

$ ls -l /var/lock
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 11 Jun 27  2013 /var/lock -> ../run/lock
$ ls -ld /run/lock/
drwxr-xr-x. 8 root root 160 Mar 28 17:32 /run/lock/
$ sudo chmod go+w /run/lock
$ ls -ld /run/lock/
drwxrwxrwx. 8 root root 160 Mar 28 17:32 /run/lock/

If it is not possible or not desirable to change permissions for this directory then serial port connection must be disable in Eclipse debugger configuration window.

Another problem that might happen is necessary permissions to open UART device. For example on Ubuntu 14.04 only root and members of dialout group can use /dev/ttyUSB1 (typical UART port for boards based on FT2232 chip). Thus to use connect to those port user must be made member of dialout group. Command to do this:

$ sudo usermod -a -G plugdev `whoami`

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