[Question] Is it possible to generate ARM32 projects already?

[oedze]

Thank you for making this generator for Atmel studio.
I was wondering if it is already possible to generate a ARM32 based project with this generator because it's mentioned in the readme as possible but in issue #1 it's mentioned that it's needs to be implemented.
If it is possible, how would i make a ARM32 project? what flag should i give to the cmake command?

[bebenlebricolo]

Hi @oedze I'm sorry for the delay, I completely missed the notification so I haven't seen your issue until now (!)
At the moment, ARM32 is not supported and will required extra development ; I need to check in the sources, it has been quite some time and I don't have time now to implement the new functionalities. However I'll have a look and keep you posted when I have more details 😄

[oedze]

Thanks! i don't need it anymore, so don't worry about implementing it soon.

[bebenlebricolo]

@oedze No problem, still someone (either me or a motivated fellow developer) might need to implement it in the future releases.
I don't have much time to work on this, unfortunately, as my attention switched to other projects for now, but as mentioned in some other tickets, I warmly welcome anyone who wants to give a hand. I can point out in which code section the relevant information lies, and advise on further improvements.

I think the readme mislead you a little on the ARM32 aspect : in facts this generator is able to detect the device you're targeting using custom device deduction. It essentially relies on some naming conventions, as the information is scattered alternatively in some defines (like ATMEGA328P) defines, compiler options for some of them (-mmcu=atmega328pb) and so on.

So this fork has a full support for device deduction (at least to my knowledge) and this is tested under the testAS7DeviceResolver file, using the AS7DeviceResolver.h/cpp implementations.

However, there is still a big chunk of work ahead in order to really support ARM32. Fortunately, the foundation of code is now there so we can get inspiration from the existing architecture in order to lay out the future one for ARM32.
This also extends to other devices such as AVR32 and other cores, with support for ASM, C and C++.