Re: Opinions on Rowley CrossWorks for ARM
- From: "Tom Lucas" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:01:10 -0000
"Sebastian Schildt" <jisinews@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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 :)
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 ...
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?
In my experience IARs support is good but Rowley's is absolutely
first-class and they really do bend over backwards to help. However, you
do get paper manuals with IAR which I always like but that might not be
all that useful to a room full of students.
I believe I read on the Rowley website that there is an educational
discount but Chris also mentioned that IAR can do that so I don't know
how the prices will compare once you explore both roads. I do prefer the
IAR IDE - their auto indentation is great and it does integrate with
tools like Lint better. On my project the code generated by the IAR
compiler was slightly smaller but no quicker than that generated by
Rowley's gcc.
.
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