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Re:ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices by justincormack on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @02:05PM (#8428398)
mbed seems to insist you use ARM's online toolchain, and appears to be very difficult to just use with gcc or llvm in your machine. So no thanks...
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Re:ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices by joezydeco on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @02:11PM (#8428445)
Yup. Kind of hard to tell my customers that their IoT module is secure when I can't control the toolchain.
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Re:ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices by jvermillard on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @02:53PM (#8428725)
you can export the project to use gcc, it's packing you a zip with make files and linker scripts example: https://github.com/jvermillard/Wakaama-mbed
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Re:ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices by zwieback on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @03:14PM (#8428855)
I think that's just to get people who aren't used to setting up embedded systems toolchains an easy start a la Arduino.

I didn't see anything that restricts the mbed SDK to the use of the ARM toolchain.

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Re:ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices by noselasd on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @03:40PM (#8429012)
Can't you just tell it to use gcc, as described at http://developer.mbed.org/handbook/mbed-tools ?
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Re:ARM mbed – An operating system for IoT devices by justincormack on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @04:16PM (#8429212)
Well, see this thread for problems people encountered http://developer.mbed.org/forum/mbed/topic/2336/
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