LPCDEV 0.0.1
WRC July 3, 2014

Usage and Install notes

This is the first release of my lpcdev tools.  It is not good quality, but it 
(mostly) works.  Please provide any feedback at:
wrcooke
{at}
wrcooke.net

Development has been done on Linux.  The tools should work on Windows, but 
have not been tested.  They may also work on Mac, but again, have not been 
tested.  I appreciate any feedback you can give about the tools: I want to 
make them as good as I can.

Fair warning:  the tools are very much in an early stage of development and 
are subject to change considerably.  Please don't plan any long term projects 
that depend on certain things.  I have tried to plan well and will try to 
make only minimal changes, but I expect some things to change.

Installation:
To use the tools, you will need to download the compiler toolchain for your 
operating system from launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded.  There are Linux, 
Windows and Mac executables as well as source.  Download and install the 
appropriate executable.  For Linux (Mac?) you are done there.  For Windows,
you will also need to download Gnu Make and install it.  You "may" need to 
add those two installation directories for the gcc and make executables to 
your PATH environment variable.  

Once the compiler (and make if needed) are installed, download the lpcdev.zip
file to where you want to do your development work.  Unzip the file.  It 
will create a directory structure that has the libraries and an example 
project.  The main one of concern is "project"  that hold an example project 
including the makefile.  By entering that directory and typeing "make" at 
the command line you can see if your toolchain is working correctly.  You 
can also see how to use some of the libraries.  The example there is a bit
convoluted, but it will blink an LED attached to the reset pin.

Once you have the tools installed to build the program and have compiled 
the example using make, you will need a downloader program.  I use LPC21ISP 
on Linux and it works on Windows as well.  The makefile is set up to use it 
by typing "make flash" at the command prompt.  You will almost certainly 
need to change the serial port in the makefile to that appropriate for your
system.

That is all you "must" have to get started. I hope to continue improving 
the doucmentation along with the tools.

wrc