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How to convert keil project(.uvprojx) to eclipse

suresh4win36 over 5 years ago

Hi,

I have a project which was developed using keil 5, Now wanted to work with eclipse.

How we can deal with it. Someone could help on this,

Thanks,
Suresh.

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²erik malund over 4 years ago in reply to sid04 +2

what is the big deal? you set up a project in whatever you want to use and copy paste or just copy the source files

0 rkopsch over 5 years ago

"MDK-ARM Plug-in for Eclipse":

http://www.keil.com/support/docs/3703.htm?_ga=2.232258527.1178642998.1574661316-630190727.1573712868
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0 Andy Neil over 5 years ago in reply to rkopsch

OP said version 5; the link says it will only work with v4 Projects.

AFAIK, there is no way to "downgrade" a v5 project to v4 ?

even if there is, the article lists a whole bunch of restrictions.

See also:

https://community.arm.com/developer/tools-software/tools/f/keil-forum/36216/import-uvision-project-into-eclipse

suresh4win36 said:
How we can deal with it

If the above-mentioned plug-in doesn't work for you, then you will just have to transfer the settings manually.

See also:

https://community.arm.com/developer/tools-software/tools/f/keil-forum/44102/uvision-5-to-gnu-gcc/
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0 rkopsch over 5 years ago in reply to Andy Neil

Hi Andy - moreover Keil MDK is not a Eclipse based IDE. Typically our Arm Development Studio is the solution if its about Eclipse
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0 Andy Neil over 5 years ago in reply to rkopsch
Are there any tools/utilities to convert between MDK and DS ?

AIUI:

MDK (as the name suggests) is for Microcontroller projects - Cortex-M;

DS is more for Microprocessor projects - Cortex-A.

They're not really interchangeable?
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0 rkopsch over 5 years ago in reply to Andy Neil

You're right that

- ArmDS covers Cortex-A (and Cortex-R)

- MDK covers Cortex-M

However, the idea of ArmDS is to cover the complete(!) Cortex family.

That's the reason why indeed MDK is included for users of ArmDS, see:

https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/embedded/arm-development-studio/downloads

The migration of MDK projects to ArmDS is explained at:

https://community.arm.com/developer/tools-software/tools/b/tools-software-ides-blog/posts/migrating-mdk-projects-to-development-studio
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0 Andy Neil over 5 years ago in reply to rkopsch

Thanks for the info.

However, I rather suspect that suresh4win36's reason for moving from Keil to Eclipse is to avoid paying the licence fee ...
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0 sid04 over 4 years ago in reply to Andy Neil

Yes I also think so, if you are working in startups, you want to save money
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0 ²erik malund over 4 years ago in reply to sid04

what is the big deal?

you set up a project in whatever you want to use and copy paste or just copy the source files
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0 Andy Neil over 4 years ago in reply to sid04

sid04 said:
you want to save money

More important to be getting good value from your engineers.

https://twitter.com/bitfield/status/1207207373678546946
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0 Westonsupermare Pier over 4 years ago in reply to ²erik malund

I guess the subtlety comes in the metadata describing the include paths, and compiler/linker options.

The projects are described in XML, so not sure how hard it should be to decode/translate that.
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