Install emCode

The emcode package includes the tools and a template for the Visual Studio Code projects.

To install emCode,

• Download and unzip the emCode package .

Note

If case emCode is used on Windows Sub-system for Linux, install emCode on the Linux environment.

• Create the symbolic link ~/.emCode to the actual location of emCode.

For example, if emCode is located at ~/Projects/emCode, create the symbolic link with

ln -s ~/Projects/emCode ~/.emCode

The emCode folder contains two sub-folders.

emCode
├── Template
└── Tools
    ├── Configurations
    ├── Cores
    └── Makefiles

The Template sub-folder contains a minimal Visual Studio Code project.

The Tools sub-folder contains the configuration files of the boards, the pre-compiled core archives, and the makefiles.

The pre-compiled core archives are generated during the first successful build against a board.

For example, the first successful build and link against the Raspberry Pi Pico RP2040 board with core 3.3.0 generates Raspberry_Pi_Pico_W_RP2040_MSD_3.3.0.a.

The following builds go faster as they use the archive.