# Photon development in different IDE (Eclipse, IAR) **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [July 22, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-development-in-different-ide-eclipse-iar/13607 "2015-07-22T16:11:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sleziak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sleziak](https://community.particle.io/u/Sleziak)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-development-in-different-ide-eclipse-iar/13607/1 "2015-07-22T16:11:52Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![peekay123](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/peekay123/32/810_2.png) [@peekay123](https://community.particle.io/u/peekay123)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 4:31pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-development-in-different-ide-eclipse-iar/13607/2 "2015-07-22T16:31:10Z")
@Sleziak, search the forum and you will find tutorials for setting up different environments. Search for Eclipse or netbeans to start with. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Moors7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/community.particle.io/moors7/32/588_2.png) [@Moors7](https://community.particle.io/u/Moors7)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-development-in-different-ide-eclipse-iar/13607/3 "2015-07-22T16:48:36Z")
Have a look over here, that should get you started easily: > [@Toolchain for Windows Installer](https://community.particle.io/t/toolchain-for-windows-installer/13217/32): > > 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](https://github.com/mumblepins/ParticleToolchainInstaller), get it [here](https://github.com/mumblepins/ParticleToolchainInstaller/releases/tag/v0.4.3a). Tested on Win7, with nothing else really installed, and it seems to work fine. Let me know of any issues! ---
**Author:** ![Sleziak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sleziak](https://community.particle.io/u/Sleziak)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-development-in-different-ide-eclipse-iar/13607/4 "2015-07-22T17:46:47Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![outperform](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e5b9ba/32.png) [@outperform](https://community.particle.io/u/outperform)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/photon-development-in-different-ide-eclipse-iar/13607/5 "2015-10-07T14:44:37Z")
@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.