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February 4, 2008 9:46 AM

Is there unix-compatable alternative to Freescale's CodeWarrior?

I'm taking a class on embedded systems and the lab kit has a number of Freescale microcontrollers; the software that came with the programmer is Windows-only and is not installed in any of the computer labs. I'm using the Spyder programmer with HSC08-family chips.

posted by tylermoody to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Response by poster: Forgot to mention this: I need something that runs on OSX, Debian, or FreeBSD.
posted by tylermoody at 9:47 AM on February 4, 2008

Heh, CodeWarrior was CodeWarrior before it was bought by Motorola.

I'm not sure what you need here. What language are you compiling? GCC unfortunately doesn't have an HCS08 compiler, or you'd be all set.
posted by mkb at 10:21 AM on February 4, 2008

Are you looking for development suite or a GUI or a compiler or... ?
posted by unixrat at 10:28 AM on February 4, 2008

So the lab kit only has Freescale microcontrollers w/ Windows software but there isn't a computer lab with a Windows machine (or you dont have permissions to install it)? If you have a Windows machine of your own you can install the software; I remember it being pretty straightforward. Otherwise you could ask whoever's in charge of the lab to install it for you.
posted by pravit at 10:31 AM on February 4, 2008

Have you tried SDCC? The Small Device C Compiler?
posted by substrate at 12:26 PM on February 4, 2008

At work we compile with the Cosmic compiler for the HC08 under Linux (an older RedHat enterprise version), and only use Codewarrior for the HiWave debugger that is included with it when we run an emulator instead of the real target.
posted by rfs at 1:13 PM on February 4, 2008