Free cross-platform C/C IDE for developers of embedded applications.

EmmbeddedLite is a free C/C IDE. It is based on CodeLite C IDE with changes and add-ons useful for embedded programmers.

Features:

• Is’s free – Open Source GPLv3.

• It’s cross-platform – keep consistent feel and look on Windows, Linux and Mac.

Compiler:

Debugger:

• Uses gdb as debugging engine.

Interface:

• Syntax highlighting

• Code folding.

• Tabbed interface

• Code completion

• Smart indent

• External customizable "Tools"

Why another C/C IDE?

Embedding programming differs in many aspects from “usual” programming, and the first difference is a large scale of development tools – compilers, linkers etc. Producers of different CPUs and controllers supply developers with tool chains necessary to use their hardware. Toolchains contain compiler with different libraries and, usually, some kind of IDE of different usability. Unfortunately, quality and usability of these IDE are often quite far from the modern state of art and the lack of user interface consistency make switching between different development tools a real problem.

The project was started after I have fond, that CodeLite can be configured (almost) for all of compilers I used (except for ancient 16-bit ones from DOS era), but lacks several valuable features – like support of assembler. After some changes were done the project, targeting embedded developers begin to obtain its shape.