IAR Eclipse plugins
The IAR Eclipse plugins are provided free-of-charge by IAR. They enhance a standard instance of the Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers to take direct advantage of the high quality IAR build toolchains alongside the advanced features provided by their respective debuggers from an existing IAR Embedded Workbench or IAR Build Tools installation, for the supported target architectures.
Key features
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Project management & IDE
- Projects are managed by the built-in features from the Eclipse CDT
- IAR Embedded Workbench project (.ewp) importer
- IAR Project Options configuration
- IAR Embedded Workbench Plugins Manager
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Build toolchain support
- IAR C/C++ Compiler
- IAR Assembler
- IAR ILINK Linker
- Parsing of error messages
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IAR C-SPY Debugger support
- Native support to the state-of-art debugger
- Instruction set simulator
- Advanced trace features
Supported target architectures
Eclipse plugins are available for the following target architectures:
C-SPY Debugger Support
- Arm
Build Toolchain Support
- Arm
- Texas Instruments MSP430
- STMicroelectronics STM8
- Renesas RH850
- Renesas RL78
- Renesas RX
- Renesas V850
- Renesas R32C
- Renesas 78K
Project Managment and IDE
- Arm
- Texas Instruments MSP430
- STMicroelectronics STM8
- Renesas RH850
- Renesas RL78
- Renesas RX
- Renesas V850
- Renesas R32C
- Renesas 78K
Executables built with debug information for the target architectures in which their respective plugin does not provide IAR C-SPY Debugger support can be debugged:
- from their respective IAR Embedded Workbench for debugging an externally built executable file, or
- from their respective GNU Debugger (GDB), directly from the Eclipse IDE, when those are available.
System requirements
In order to take advantage of the IAR Eclipse plugins, the following software components must be installed:
- IAR Embedded Workbench or IAR Build Tools, for one or more supported target architectures
- Eclipse IDE for C/C++ Developers, selectable from the Eclipse Installer
For detailed system requirements refer to the IAR Eclipse plugin update site.
Download and Install IAR Eclipse plugins
Instructions for downloading and installing the IAR Eclipse plugins are provided directly from IAR Eclipse plugin update site.