ARM Version 1.6 manual Viewing build settings

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3.Right-click on the Tool_dir entry and select Edit as Directory Name from the context menu. This displays the Enter New Directory dialog box where you can specify the location of the toolchain you want to use. This forms the base directory for the executable tools for this family of processors.

4.Select File → Save and Close to save your changes and close the Build-Tool Properties window.

If you have a common linker command file or your own runtime libraries, for example kernel, ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit), and peripheral drivers, you can specify them for all projects at this stage. To make the changes:

1.Select Project → Build-Tool Properties... from the Code window main menu.

2.Double-click on the *PROC=ARM_ADS group in the left pane to expand the tree.

3.Double-click on C_code in the right pane.

4.Right-click on Def_cmd_file and select Edit as Filename from the context menu. This displays the Enter New Filename dialog box where you can specify the location of the linker command file.

5.Right-click on Def_lib_cmd_file and select Edit as Filename from the context menu. This displays the Enter New Filename dialog box where you can specify the location of the librarian command file.

6.Select File → Save and Close to save your changes and close the Build-Tool Properties window.

4.5.2Viewing build settings

The Project Properties window includes another window that enables you to see a summary of the compiler, assembler, and linker command lines generated by the current project settings. This window provides a read-only display of the command-line switches for each of the current build target configurations.

To view your current compiler settings:

1.Select Project → Open Project... to open the required project, for example

install_directory\examples\demo_ARM\dhrystone\dhrystone.prj.

2.Select Project → Project Properties... to display the Project Properties window.

3.Click on *COMPILE=arm in the left pane of the Project Properties window to see the ARM C compiler (armcc) command line.

4.Select View → Configuration Summary to display the Configuration Summary window, shown in Figure 4-16 on page 4-31.

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