Using Mbed Studio's ARMC6 with Mbed CLI #1028
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docs/tools/CLI/cli-setup/cli-reqs.md
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| ##### Using Arm Compiler 6 from Mbed Studio | ||
| Mbed Studio comes with a free version of Arm Compiler 6 when it's used with Mbed OS. It requires configuring the `ARMC6_PATH` as well as setting an environment variable to manage the license. | ||
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| For Mbed Studio version 0.4.0, the Arm Compiler 6 executable is located in `./tools/ac6/bin`. This path is relative to the installation directory of Mbed Studio. On Windows for example, the default path is `C:\MbedStudio\tools\ac6\bin`. |
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They have a new release next week - 0.5
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Good to know, hopefully they can comment if I need to update this.
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@bridadan Irit is correct. Version 0.5 of Mbed Studio is planned soon. Ideally, you should not add path in docs. We are also moving the location of tools. It is no longer going to be inside of installation path.
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Arek also said it's going to be different locations for different platforms.
This is starting to look like the docs maintenance effort is going to be very high.
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| For Mbed Studio version 0.4.0, the Arm Compiler 6 executable is located in `./tools/ac6/bin`. This path is relative to the installation directory of Mbed Studio. On Windows for example, the default path is `C:\MbedStudio\tools\ac6\bin`. | ||
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| You must also set the environment variable `ARMLMD_LICENSE_FILE` to the path of Mbed Studio's Arm Compiler 6 license. For Mbed Studio version 0.4.0, the license is located at `./tools/ac6-license.dat`. This path is relative to the installation directory of Mbed Studio. On Windows for example, the default path is `C:\MbedStudio\tools\ac6-license.dat`. Note that this environment variable is not managed by Mbed CLI, so you must set it appropriately in your environment. |
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Again - they're releasing 0.5 to match 5.12; need to make sure which versions this is correct for
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Same as above. That is part of the reason why I put the version number in this change.
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@arekzaluski can you answer some questions about 0.4/0.5? |
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Merging; will then update links that came from PR 1024 |
This is the accompanying docs changes informing users on how to take advantage of the free Arm Compiler 6 bundled with Mbed Studio when building with Mbed CLI.
This is the corresponding OS tools change that will print a link to this encouraging users to upgrade to Arm Compiler 6: ARMmbed/mbed-os#10193
Reviewer notes/requests
For Mbed Studio folks: want y'all to be aware of what we're telling our users. I realize the compiler may move around in future releases. Please keep me posted and I can update this doc to match what you release, thanks!
For docs team: do the fine work y'all always do 👍
For everyone else: general review and to keep you in the loop
FYI @iriark01 @AnotherButler @bulislaw @SenRamakri @thegecko @arekzaluski
^ Lots of people but this is pretty wide reaching, thanks for taking the time to review this!