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Coders, what is your workflow on Linux (self.linux)

submitted 1 year ago by Croquette to c/[email protected]

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Hello,

I installed Ubuntu a few months ago on my work laptop and I've been running and loving it since.

However, I am used to VsCode, so this is what I am using in Ubuntu as well.

So I am curious, what kind of coding so you do? And what is your workflow.

I am an embedded firware developper and mainly use C. I am cross compiling my code in VsCode for a FPGA from Xilinx (dual core arm + PL)

Never dove into make files and cmake more than what I needed in the past, but I had an opportunity to learn CMake and build a project from it.

So my workflow is :

Code in VsCode
Build in CMake
Transfer the app through scp on the target with a custom script (target is running petalinux, which is yocto + Xilinx recipes)
Use gdb server to debug the code.

It's a pretty simple workflow, but I'd like to know what you guys are running so that I can maybe upgrade my workflow.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I usually hack stuff together with vim and tmux (I know, it's redundant but Ctrl b is just a reflex at this point) when on a remote machine, but I use vscode at work and recently discovered the remote mode for Linux development... It's pretty awesome, like not anything you can't set up with vim or emacs, but it's seamless remote development if you already like to use vscode

[–] Croquette 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would like to do remote dev directly on the target, but it only has64Mb qspi Flash and 512Mb of RAM, so I can't install any modern development tools without exploding my 64Mb.

I cross compile with arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc so I at least don't need to use the awful Xilinx IDE.

Since we're not sure yet if we will keep our current hardware for 1.0, but not tying my project to a vendor tools, I can easily switch my custom scripts for the new hardware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm are you compiling code? Sounds like the kind of platform that shouldn't host its own build tools. For that kind of setup I would consider building a remote dev box that can push to / debug the target platform? Maybe even control power to reset the dev board.

[–] Croquette 2 points 1 year ago

I cross compile then push the program through a scp and start gdb-server with a script.

The remote dev box is a good idea because I can use any computer to access it and still be able to push code. I will look into it.