Creating an Stand Project - mips-open-ide/Releases GitHub Wiki

Creating an MIPS Embedded Linux project is very similar to creating a standalone project – the biggest difference is the project type selection in the creation process. MIPS Embedded Linux projects come with source files from the respective RTOS to enable successful generation of an executable utilizing the API from said RTOS. Below is the new project wizard dialog, which has selections for both types of projects. You can see that MIPS Embedded Linux, and Standalone Embedded are two project types supported by MIPS Open IDE in Figure 40.

Figure 40 - MIPS Project Types Supported by MIPS Open IDE

Note the Debug and Release options in the dialog. These options allow MIPS Open IDE to manage two different configurations of the same project. The Debug configuration typically contains settings appropriate for developing and debugging the code in the project, while the Release configuration typically has settings appropriate for finished production code—the main difference being the lack of debug symbols and perhaps higher optimization settings in the Release configuration. The examples in this guide use the Debug configuration.