Re: Opinions on Rowley CrossWorks for ARM
- From: "Leon" <leon.heller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Oct 2006 11:03:16 -0800
Sebastian Schildt wrote:
Hello group,
I'd like to hear some opinions regarding the Rowley CrossWorks for ARM
toolchain. I know, this is a somewhat broad request, so I'll try to
clarify things a bit more:
I am in the process of evaluating ARM toolchains which are to be used in
university classes/projects.
Wishlist
1. stable, proven toolchain
2. preferably something "industry standard", so students use the
tools which they might encounter in their future jobs
3. Cheap :)
We just recently switched to ARM. We have experience with the (X)C166
architecture using the Tasking Toolchain and Atmel AVR with WinAVR (GCC)
So far I tried out the the following ARM toolchains
IAR:
Had no problems with this one. I've come to the understandung, that this
is THE toolchain for ARM Development? So certainly this fits 1 and 2 of
the wishlist, but not exactly 3 ...
WinARM (free GCC)
I tried this and it worked somehow but feels a bit "hacky". AVRGCC
distributions in contrast are way more polished. So for the time being I
ruled this one out
ImageCraft
This worked pretty good, but as far as I could see there's no debugger
included, which is a minus. Worse, the website, well, is very
unprofessional and looks and reads as if it was created by a bunch of
immature teenagers. I think I'll stay away from this. (I looked at
http://www.imagecraft.com/. First I thought it is a fake or something
but I couldn't find another page)
Rowley Crossworks
No Problems. Quite like IAR. Looks nice. I was quite impressed, and
prices are very reasonable. From what I've seen this is a GCC variant
for which Rowley provides the standard libs, device headers, IDE, etc?
Tasking
We already use this product for (X)C166. For ARM we want something else.
Keil
Haven't tried this one so far. Also quite welll known, at least for 8051
I think.
So basically we're asking ourselves whether IAR or Rowley (and perhaps
Keil?) is the "better" solution for us. "Everyone" seems to know IAR or
Keil, while I haven't found that much about Rowley.
Any personal opinions regarding Rowley/IAR/Keil or pointers to
Reviews/Benchmarks are greatly appreciated.
Thanks for reading this far :)
Sebastian Schildt
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