CamelStudioX is an IDE designed for embedded system designed by Camel Microelectronic Inc.
This IDE is expected to provide a much robuster and more convenient using experience than CamelStudio.
If you are interested in CamelStudioX(for macOS) lower than 4.0 (like 3.8.0), please visit CamelStudioX_Mac.
- Migrate from HockeyApp to AppCenter
- Unify debugging print
- Update software architecture diagram
- Write a formal README.md file
- hardware debugging system: linker shouldn't use '-s' option!
~/D/C/C/Hello[14:10] > /Applications/CamelStudioX.app/Contents/Frameworks/CSXMake.framework/Resources/Toolchains/bin/mips-netbsd-elf-objdump -d --line-numbers release/Hello.o
release/Hello.o: file format elf32-littlemips
Disassembly of section .text:
00000000 <user_interrupt>:
user_interrupt():
/Users/daizhirui/Development/Camel/CamelProject/Hello/Hello.c:25
0: 27bdfff8 addiu sp,sp,-8
4: afbe0004 sw s8,4(sp)
8: 03a0f025 move s8,sp
/Users/daizhirui/Development/Camel/CamelProject/Hello/Hello.c:26
c: 00000000 nop
10: 03c0e825 move sp,s8
14: 8fbe0004 lw s8,4(sp)
18: 27bd0008 addiu sp,sp,8
1c: 03e00008 jr ra
20: 00000000 nop
00000024 <main>:
main():
/Users/daizhirui/Development/Camel/CamelProject/Hello/Hello.c:34
24: 27bdffe8 addiu sp,sp,-24
28: afbf0014 sw ra,20(sp)
2c: afbe0010 sw s8,16(sp)
30: 03a0f025 move s8,sp
/Users/daizhirui/Development/Camel/CamelProject/Hello/Hello.c:36
34: 3c020000 lui v0,0x0
38: 24440000 addiu a0,v0,0
3c: 0c000000 jal 0 <user_interrupt>
40: 00000000 nop
/Users/daizhirui/Development/Camel/CamelProject/Hello/Hello.c:37
44: 00000000 nop
/Users/daizhirui/Development/Camel/CamelProject/Hello/Hello.c:39
48: 3c020000 lui v0,0x0
4c: 24440008 addiu a0,v0,8
50: 0c000000 jal 0 <user_interrupt>
54: 00000000 nop
58: 00001025 move v0,zero
/Users/daizhirui/Development/Camel/CamelProject/Hello/Hello.c:40
5c: 03c0e825 move sp,s8
60: 8fbf0014 lw ra,20(sp)
64: 8fbe0010 lw s8,16(sp)
68: 27bd0018 addiu sp,sp,24
6c: 03e00008 jr ra
70: 00000000 nop- Fix a mistake of update feed url.
- Fix a problem of checking updates via GitHub.
- Update to Swift 5.0
- Solve a mistake in M2/IO.h
- Update Documentation
- Improve AutoCompleter
- Fix a crash on macOS 10.12.*
- Auto update recent project table in Welcome Window
- Fix UI of Welcome Window in old systems
- Filter unexisting recent projects
- Fix a bug of smart punctuation: '0' eats ')'
- Improve smart punctuation: auto pair of single quotation marks and double quotation marks
- New feature: quick comment by using "Command + /"
- Replace HockkeyApp SDK with MSAppCenter SDK.
- New toolbar! Now you can customize your own toolbar!
- Project Settings Panel is moved to the right side.
- Help and Documentation are opened in a new window now! CamelStudioX supports you open multiple help or documentation windows now!
- CamelStudioX Make System Output panel is slightly adjusted to become more readable.
- Fix a bug of the OpenPortButton in the Serial Monitor
- Solve a mistake in M2/SPI.h
- Improve the experience and the performance of the serial monitor
- Improve the auto-completer of the code editor
- Fix the UI of the tabs when a mouse is connected
- Update Sparkle Framework
- Add file system monitor to file browser, update files modified other-where automatically
- Add "Tools" to the main menu, which contains two submenus: "Serial Monitor Window" and "Serial Driver Installer"
Third generation of CamelStudioX, modular software architecture. Its UI is totally redesigned.
Function List:
- Binary Converter:
- supports converting optimized ELF files.
- Toolchain Interface:
- does not need Xcode anymore!
- supports switching between different target profiles.
- supports processing multiple target profiles simultaneously.
- supports printing more compiling details.
- Binary Uploader:
- upload binary to M2 chips faster and stabler.
- supports uploading binary to different chips simultaneously.
- Serial monitor:
- a new stabler module architecture, all serial devices are managed by a manager. No more switching anymore.
- supports sending text via the window directly, "chat with your chip"
- supports sending file manually
- Documentation and Tutorial Viewer:
- Now you can view the official documentation or the tutorial just inside the IDE, without switching to Safari.
- File browser:
- robuster file operation
- avoids opening none-text files
- Code editor:
- multiple tabs
- auto-completion
- Syntax highlighting
- auto-tab, auto-brace and auto-quotes
CamelStudioX for macOS, version 4.0, third generation, is completed!
After the IDE being tested frequently and many precious feedbacks, the macOS version of CamelStudioX has been redesigned and recoded twice. As a student, I have learned a lot from three times of huge work of building this software.
To build CamelStudioX and make it perform perfectly, many practical problems have to be solved because of the lack of existing reliable open source frameworks for macOS App in Swift.
For example:
- building a portable gcc x86-mips cross compiler toolchains
- building a module which supports compiling code without using makefile and make system
- designing and building a converter which can recognizing the program code, data section, string table and other necessary staffs in the ELF file produced by the cross compiler and assemble them as a binary which is executable in the embedded system
- building a serial communication module which wraps the basic device file system
- building a PC-end serial uploader to load a binary to the embedded system
- building a small and high-performing file browser for basic file operation
- building a simple code processing module which supports syntax highlighting, auto-completion and other common features in some popular code editor like VSCode and Atom, to provide better coding experience
- designing a suitable project file structure to process diverse compiling demands without the help of GNU make
- ... to be continued
As an undergraduate student, time is so limited. It is really difficult to build an IDE individually but I have learned many knowledge about compiler, computer structure, algorithm, Linux, multi thread, real time processing, C, Swift, and so on. I do this project with strong passion and I am very excited to hear some suggestions from you.