This serves as a tutorial for myself to setup my own IDE for microcontroller programming

Why command-line (No IDE)?

1. Customization
   • Favorite tools: Editor, terminal
   • Script, aliases, configs
2. Consistency
   • One good setup across projects
   • Avoid IDE hopping (some IDEs suck!!)
3. Build automation
   • Continous integration (CI), testing etc.
   • Hard to automate from IDE
4. Knowledge
   • Understand build process better

Toolchains (ex: MSP-CGT)

1. Proprietary
2. only targets MSP430s
3. +15% better than GCC

GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)

1. De-facto standard on Linux part of GNU Toolchain
2. Widely used (e.g Linux kernel)
3. Support many targets (x86, ARM, ...)
4. Open Source
5. Well documented

Install GCC Toolchain:

1. Download GCC Open source from TI website -https://www.ti.com/tool/MSP430-GCC-OPENSOURCE#downloads