Re: Opinions on Rowley CrossWorks for ARM
- From: Grant Edwards <grante@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:57:14 -0000
On 2006-10-30, Chris Hills <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There are also a lot of versions of Gcc and various libraries
out there. Some better than others.
CrossWorks for ARM, for example, uses the Gnu toolchain.
The Gnu toolchain for ARM is definitely production quality.
I've been shipping product using the Gnu toolchain for ARM (and
other platforms) for many years, and I've got no complaints.
Crossworks seems fairly popular among the MSP430 crowd, and
everybody has nice things to say about them. I'm not really a
GUI type myself, but in my book, Crossworks gets a lot of
points for
1) Supporting Linux as the development host. That's huge in
my book. Forcing your customers to install Windows is just
plain evil.
2) Not using node-locked license servers or dongles or stuff
like that that always falls over on a weekend evening two
hours before a deadline. Been there, done that, got the
scars -- I'm not doing it again.
3) Good customer support. On the MSP430 mailing list there's
usually somebody from Crossworks answering questions.
If I was going to buy development tools, Crossworks is probably
whom I'd call first.
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