timconnelly / ci_embedded

A sample project demonstrating how to build an embedded project with Segger Embedded Studio on CircleCI.

To simplify startup, we use the a Docker image with SES already installed. Apart from a sample situation, we would want to create our own Docker image for control over packages, versioning, security and caching the image.

We only have one workflow which does a checkout of the code, then builds the repo.

command: /ses/bin/emBuild -config "Debug" -project "ci_test" ci_test.emProject

We only build the Debug version in the sample. The Release, or other configurations, could be built by simply changing "Debug" to "Release" in the above command. See the SES Documentation for all command line options.

Next Steps

The next steps we will take after building the repo are:

1. Cache the output
2. Run the tests

Other Build Environments

Build environments with more restrictive licenses (IAR, Keil) may be more complicated to setup. A quick search of a their websites shows they support CI, but there's no obvious mention of licensing.

If you're using GCC ARM without an IDE, install your tools in the Docker image change the command: above to your build command.