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Step 1: First Install The Mingw: Freertos Simulator Test Procedure For Windows Using Eclipse

This document provides a 5 step procedure for setting up and running a FreeRTOS simulator on Windows using Eclipse: it involves installing MinGW, creating an Eclipse C project, importing the FreeRTOS kernel source and config files, adding include paths, building and running a sample "blinky" application to confirm successful setup. Additional exercises are imported from a source code folder and can be built and run to test FreeRTOS functionality without requiring actual hardware.

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Step 1: First Install The Mingw: Freertos Simulator Test Procedure For Windows Using Eclipse

This document provides a 5 step procedure for setting up and running a FreeRTOS simulator on Windows using Eclipse: it involves installing MinGW, creating an Eclipse C project, importing the FreeRTOS kernel source and config files, adding include paths, building and running a sample "blinky" application to confirm successful setup. Additional exercises are imported from a source code folder and can be built and run to test FreeRTOS functionality without requiring actual hardware.

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FreeRTOS Simulator Test Procedure for Windows using Eclipse.

STEP 1 : First install the MinGW

MinGW is a software package which provides GNU tools for windows such as
C/C++ compiler, linker, etc

Go here: http://www.mingw.org/category/wiki/download

Then click on “Download installer”

After downloading you will be having the file “mingw-get-setup.exe” which


you need to install.

STEP 2 : Create an Eclipse project for ANSI ‘C’ Project

First double click on “Eclipse” icon and give a name for the workspace as
shown below
After that click on the “workbench”

Great! Now we are in the workbench of our workspace

Now let‟s create a simple „C‟ Project.


Give a name for your project

And select other options as shown in the below picture

Then click “Next”


Fill up the below details if you want, then click “Next”
Now click “finish”
Great! Now you created ANSI C project.

STEP3: Add FreeRTOS kernel source with windows port.

Now, in this step let‟s add a freeRTOS kernel source to our project. So far you
have seen that we have to change the port.c for different architectures.

port.c is the one which consist of arch specific codes. Now ,since we are
executing freeRTOS on windows machine itself, we have to add port.c which
is specific to windows machine. port.c is given by freeRTOS itself.

Now, first let‟s add the freeRTOS kernel source to our project.
Go to the path,

Resources_RTOS\FreeRTOS+Simulator

First let‟s add the freeRTOS kernel source.

Right click on your project and then click “import”

Now, click on “Filesystem” then Click “Next”


Now, give the path where you have stored “Resources_RTOS” folder

<Your_path>\Resources_RTOS\FreeRTOS+Simulator

And select “FreeRTOSv9.0.0” which is nothing but freeRTOS kernel source

FreeRTOSConfig.h, which is nothing but the configuration file for the freeRTOS

main.c : a sample freeRTOS application to test our simulator

Run-time-stats-utils.c : this is a source file which gives lots of stats related


functions for windows. Nothing to do with RTOS.

Select as below

Then click on “Finish”


Great now you have added freertos kernel source to the project.

Please note that, this is the port.c which is specific to windows.

Now, we don‟t need this “src” folder so delete it


STEP 4 : Add include paths to the project

Now let‟s add all the FreeRTOS header paths to the project, otherwise
compile will issue errors.

First lets add the freertos header files path to the project.

For that right click on the project and select “properties”


Now, expand “C/C++ General”

Select “Paths and Symbols”

Then select “GNU C”

After that click on “Add”

Here, click on workspace


Expand the project and select “include” then click “Ok”

After that again click “ok”

Now, you have added the freeRTOS “include” path

Now again click on “Add” and repeat what we did in last step
This time select the path where we have stored „port‟ related header file

Then click “OK”

Now, again repeat the step, this time add the path where we have stored
the “FreeRTOsconfig.h”
Great ! Now we have hopefully added all the required paths to the project.

Now click “Apply” then “OK”

Now you can see in “port.c” it needs winmm.lib , that is a windows specific
library, lets add that to our project.
Right click on the project and select “properties”.

Expand “C/C++ Build” , Select “Settings”, then select “Libraries” under


“MinGW C linker"

In the libraries section click on „+‟ icon and give the name “winmm”

Then click “OK”

Then “Apply” then “OK”


STEP5: Build and Run the project

Now let‟s build the project

First “clean” it

Then build the project


Now, you can see that the .exe file is created.

That‟s nothing but windows executable right? Just execute it !

Just select it, right click and run as local c/C++ application
You can see our application is now running ,

You can hit the below “red” box to terminate the execution

Great! So we just executed our first demo application in the simulator mode.

All you need is just you windows PC and eclipse software, that‟s it . no
hardware is required.
Note1 : some time launching the application as described above may not
work properly, in that case you can directly go to the “Debug” folder of the
project and execute the “.exe” by just double clicking on it.

See below

Importing the Course exercises to Current Workspace


Click on “File” Then click on “Import”
Select “Existing Projects into workspace” Then click “Next”

Here, give the path where code exercises for the simulator mode is stored.

The path must be

<your path >\ Resources_RTOS\Source_codes\freertos_examples_simulator

After that eclipse will load all the available projects.

Just click “Finish”


Now you can see all the projects are imported to your current workspace.

First lets clean all the projects.


Clean all projects.

Now, let‟s build the first project “Example001”

Select it and click on the “hammer” icon


After building under “Binaries” you will find the .exe created.

Great ! Like this you can execute and test all the course exercises on your
windows machine.

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