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I've just written a beginner's guide on what you need to do to get a basic program using the stdcl library running on the Parallella using Eclipse.



If I've left anything out please let me know.

nick

A fantastic post! Thank you for writing it. I am sure lots of people will find it useful.

Some comments:

-In section 2.2, you mention that the Epiphany doesn't have a debugger? Not sure what you meant, but Epiphany does support most of gdb's functionality. Did you try using the "e-gdb". Through the e-gdb, you can load code, execute,single step, variable monitoring, etc. You can even use it as a console to catch printf output.

-A multi-core friendly updated debugger has been in development since January and is getting very close to release. (~4 weeks away). The new debugger will support controlling all epiphany cores through a single e-gdb client and will also support asynchronous debugging mode. This should make debugging complete OpenCL applications significantly easier!

-Thanks to Ericsson there is also an advanced Parallella specific multicore debugging CDT for Eclipse. We'll work on getting this posted asap.

Fulfilling Kickstarter/pre-order commitments and getting Parallella into production has been our first priority over the last 2 years. Now that folks like yourself are starting to use the platform our first priority is to make the platform easier to use.

Thanks,
Andreas

Thanks Andreas.

That's great news. For some reason e-gdb hadn't registered with me... I've seen it mentioned in posts but for some reason the two thoughts, "I need to debug" and "there is a thing called e-gdb" had not collided yet.

I'll update my current post and get going on writing a debug specific one.

nick