In this chapter, we have set up our Windows 7 PC with the CodeBench Lite cross-compiler and an Eclipse IDE to write and compile our BeagleBoard C/C++ application. Then we configured the Eclipse IDE to run and debug the BeagleBoard application remotely at our Windows 7 PC.
Eclipse and its plugins (for example, RSE) have an extensive number of features which are out of the scope of discussion for this book. However, you can find a comprehensive guide to the IDE on the Eclipse website:
We have also written our first C application and learned how to compile code, transfer files to the BeagleBoard, and run and debug applications on the BeagleBoard remotely. Following this, you have understood the workflow of embedded software development for BeagleBoard. We can move onto our first MATLAB/Simulink project for rapid prototyping...