

I’m using an ST Nucleo-F411RE, but any board supported by the compiler should be fine. We’ll cover the basics here, to learn more about the online compiler see ARM’s tutorials, and you can sign up for an account here.ĪRM’s online compiler lets you select your target platform and configures your project accordingly. The best way to get started with this and understand the capabilities is with a project exported from the ARM mbed online compiler. We hope that this provides flexibility for many styles of embedded development. We are using the same JSON configuration files from other Open Folder scenarios and have added additional options to support the toolchains introduced here.

Our cross compilation support uses our Open Folder capabilities so there is no project system involved. This adds the ARM GCC cross compilation tools and Make to your installation.

To enable this in the installation choose the Linux development with C++ workload and select the option for Embedded and IoT Development. The 15.6 Preview 2 release adds debugging support. In Visual Studio 2017 15.5 we are introduced support for cross compilation targeting ARM microcontrollers. ⏱ Updated on Januto cover addition of debugging support in Visual Studio 2017 15.6
