Photon development in different IDE (Eclipse, IAR)

[Sleziak]

Hi, I have just received my 4 Photons and I am extremely impressed by them.

I’d like to use their capabilities to the fullest potential however the IDE that Particle provides just doesn’t cut it for rapid development.
I am wondering if it is possible to program the Photon using a st-link programmer and different offline IDE’s than the default Particle cloud IDE.

I just feel more at home with C/C++ and have a handful of ARM programming experience.

Regards

[peekay123]

@Sleziak, search the forum and you will find tutorials for setting up different environments. Search for Eclipse or netbeans to start with.

[Moors7]

Have a look over here, that should get you started easily:

Toolchain for Windows Installer

Welp. Sourceforge finally is back up (mainly), so I made some improvements. It now will install the toolchain, Netbeans for development, the Particle CLI, and all the assorted requirements for those things. It also includes a Netbeans project, so after setup, you should just be able to run Netbeans and click Build, and you’re good to go. See more info here, get it here. Tested on Win7, with nothing else really installed, and it seems to work fine. Let me know of any issues!

[Sleziak]

Perfect, thank you all for your help

I managed to get IAR up and running with the Photon, I was not aware that the firmware was open-sourced, it was the final piece of the puzzle

Best wishes

[outperform]

@Sleziak would you be willing to share the IAR project/workspace with sample app? I’ve been hoping to do the same, just got IAR formal training - but still new compared to you with IAR - so could really use the jumpstart.