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8 years, 10 months ago.
Standalone compiler?
When and on what terms standalone compiler will be available? Right now compiling and ever file operations (opening etc.) become nightmare - probably due to big load on servers. Success could make a problem for the future of mbed projects. I know that 3.0 is coming but the question will be - when and on what terms it will be available. Second question is about whole mbed ecosystem when we will go to 3.0 standalone compilers. Third is about way the old projects could coexist both with old and new compilers.
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8 years, 10 months ago.
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When and on what terms standalone compiler will be available?
You can use offline compilers with mbed 2.0 already. These wiki pages should help you get started.
- https://developer.mbed.org/handbook/Exporting-to-offline-toolchains
- https://developer.mbed.org/handbook/Getting-Started-mbed-Exporters
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Right now compiling and ever file operations (opening etc.) become nightmare - probably due to big load on servers.
There doesn't seem to be any particular issues with the online compiler currently. Is it always like this for you?
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I know that 3.0 is coming but the question will be - when and on what terms it will be available.
mbed 3.0 will be available at some point this year.
I'm not sure what you mean by the terms.
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Second question is about whole mbed ecosystem when we will go to 3.0 standalone compilers. Third is about way the old projects could coexist both with old and new compilers.
There will still be an online compiler in mbed 3.0 although it'll probably be different to the one in use today.
The online compiler will use the yotta build system. Yotta will also be the standard build system to use offline so the co-existence between those using online and offline tools will be easier.
Than you for your answer. Migrating to Kinetis is probably an option as you suggest. Then is anyway an issue how the mbed real time and all libraries would migrate - and if there would be any issue then I would probably move to the FreeRT or to similar stuff. If you are asking about performance issues - check for sequences of actions apparently broken in the middle. There are moments when there is no chance to do compilation or even open the file. When looking on this (together with comments that there is big load and compilation will take a longer time) it looks like mbed was big success and gathered a big number of users :) When asking about the terms I wanted to know if there will be any limiting factors that could impact possibility to build different projects in various circumstances.
posted by 14 Jun 2015
7 years, 9 months ago.
Hi. Where and how can I use the mbed 3.0. Also, is mbed 3.0 available as online compiler. If it is please can you post a link for that. Also, how to install it offline ?
Thanks
8 years, 10 months ago.
There are tools like http://platformio.org which can download and install an offline compiler and mbed libraries and act as a build system for offline compilation.