Managing multiple IAR projects with a platform package

Question

I'm building one of the sample projects inside the platform package for STM32F769 Eval board. I followed the instructions here to add support for IAR Embedded workbench: https://doc.embedded-wizard.de/getting-started-stm32f769-evalboard?v=8.20 . As far as I can tell, the location for the generated source and the EWARM project files for all of the sample projects must be inside the platform package directory at ./Application/GeneratedCode and ./Application/Project/EWARM (respectively). I see where this directory can be set inside Embedded Wizard but any other value besides the defaults does not work. Given this, how do I work on multiple projects from one platform package?

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Answer 1

Hello,

maybe the question is a little bit unclear - but let me try to provide some answers or comments.

First of all, you are referring to version 8.20 of the getting started article - I hope you are using the latest version of Getting Started with STM32F469-Evalboard.

Within the directory /Application/Project of our Build Environment you will find template projects for the different toolchains, e.g. for IAR. The advantage of these templates is, that you can generate the code from different GUI examples (which generates the code into /Application/GeneratedCode) and you can easily compile, link and flash them without the need to adapt the project. This makes it very simple to make own experiments or GUI examples based on Embedded Wizard.

When it comes to your own project (and typically all customers are doing this), please feel free to create your own IAR project (or whatever toolchain you want to use) and use the project structure according your needs.

Within Embedded Wizard you can generate the code to any directory by setting the profile attribute OutputDirectory.

I hope this answers your question....

Final remark concerning the naming: A Platform Package is just a part of our Build Environments and consist of Graphics Engine and Runtime Envrironment.

Best regards,

Manfred.