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Re: NEW 2009 Control System Released

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Originally Posted by dcbrown View Post
After reading a lot of the stuff available from FIRST, WPI, NI, and Wind River... and doing some integration/interpretation... and guessing, the following are some random opinions

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  • The IDE (Workbench) is Eclipse-based. You have the ability to add REAL breakpoints and other stuff for debugging. You'll need to compile with debug flags, otherwise you only get assembler view. Compiling w/debug goes for any libraries you'd use which is why any FIRST provided added-value such as pre-canned drivers for gyro, et.al. would need to be in a controlled source form.
  • Both the Wind River C and GNU C compilers will work.
Does this mean I can just use my existing Eclipse install on my Mac? Maybe add some plugins? Or do I have to use Windriver? What features will Windriver give me over Eclipse?

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* a ton of documentation is available (I'm looking at 100mb of stuff), everything from getting started, to writing your own BSP (as if we'd ever need or want to do that!). For software mentors, start reading!
I can has link? All I could find was the WPI page and some stuff on NI's site.. Not 100MB, no enough to get started.. If all else fails, be cool and upload a package to FileDropper or something?

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