Onethinx Core Windows dependencies pack

How to setup Visual Studio Code with the Onethinx Core dependencies pack

1. Download prerequisites

• VS Code
  • Download Visual Studio Code
• Onethinx Dependencies Pack
  • Download the Onethinx dependencies pack for Windows

2. Install VS Code & extensions

• Install VS Code.
• Install extensions:
  • ARM Support For Visual Studio Code (dan-c-underwood)
  • C/C++ IntelliSense, debugging (microsoft)
  • CMake language support (twxs)
  • CMake Tools (microsoft)
  • Cortex-Debug GDB support (marus25)
  • Power Tools (e.GO Mobile)
  • LinkerScript support for GNU (Zixuan Wang)
  • Open in Application (Fabio Spampinato)
  • Output Colorizer (IBM)
  • Tasks (actboy168)
  • Power Tools (e.GO Digital GmbH)

3. Install the Onethinx Dependencies Pack

• Unzip the pack archive to your local harddisk (eg: C:\VSCode_OnethinxPack_Windows). Hint: you might want to remove '-master' at the end of the folder name.
• Open your command prompt (cmd).
• Drag and drop the file setVariables.bat to your command prompt (or type C:\VSCode_OnethinxPack_Windows\setVariables.bat).
• Press enter, you'll see the environment variables and the path being set.
• Restart your machine.

4. Check

• If CMake, Make and the compiler is correctly installed by typing the following into your command prompt or terminal window of VS Code.
  • cmake -version
  • mingw32-make -v
  • arm-none-eabi-gcc -v
• If you have not done this yet, download the Hello World from https://ghithub.com/onethingx/VSCode_HelloWorld
  • If this builds without error, the Onethinx build suite has been installed properly.

5. Remind

• After changing the device configuration (or project file structure) to use
  • Clean Reconfigure
  • Clean Rebuild in order to build the image properly
• To delete the contents of the build folder
  • if you copied the project including build folder from another location / machine
  • when build fails.
• This pack contains the 64bit version of CMake. Replace with the 32bit version if you run on a 32bit machine.