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This guide illustrates how to build and run a first ERIKA Enterprise v3 application for dsPIC33EV 5V CAN-LIN STARTER KIT board.

RT-Druid Eclipse IDE

• Double-click the eclipse.exe application located in the eclipse folder extracted from the RT-Druid Package. Then, the workspace selection window will appear as shown in the following figure:

Figure 1: RT-Druid Eclipse IDE workspace selection.

• Browse the file-system to select Workspace folder and then click on the OK button to let the RT-Druid Eclipse IDE start as shown in the following figure:

Figure 2: RT-Druid Eclipse IDE welcome.

• Click on the Welcome tab-sheet close button to show the default RT-Druid Eclipse IDE C/C++ perspective as shown in the following figure:

Figure 3: RT-Druid Eclipse IDE C/C++ perspective.

RT-Druid Template Project

• Click on File->New->RT-Druid v3 Oil and C/C++ Project menu entry as shown in the following figure:

Figure 4: RT-Druid v3 Oil and C/C++ Project.

• The RT-Druid C/C++ Project Wizard will open as shown in the following figure:

Figure 5: RT-Druid C/C++ Project Wizard.

• Type the name of the project in the Project name text-box (e.g., EE3dsPIC33EV).

• Make sure the Cygwin GCC toolchain is selected and then click on the Next button.

• The wizard will show the window to select a project template as shown in the following figure:

Figure 6: RT-Druid Project Template Wizard.

• Click on Create a project using one of these templates check-box to let the Template Wizard to show the available templates as shown in the following figure:

Figure 7: RT-Druid Available Templates Wizard.

• Expand the dsPIC33-PIC24 and dsPIC33EV Starter Kit entries and choose the desired template to instantiate: Event Demo for example.

• Finally, click on the Finish button to instantiate an RT-Druid Eclipse project from a chosen template as shown in the following figure:

Figure 8: RT-Druid Eclipse Project.

RT-Druid Configuration

• Click on the Window->Preferences menu entry as shown in the following figure:

Figure 9: RT-Druid Eclipse Preferences.

• The RT-Druid Eclipse Preferences window will open as shown in the following figure:

Figure 10: RT-Druid Eclipse Preferences OIL.

• Click the Generator Properties entry in the OIL section of the left panel to show the RT-Druid Generator Properties to configure.

• Double-click on the MPLAB XC16 C Compiler property to configure the MPLAB XC16 C Compiler installation path as shown in the following figure:

Figure 11: RT-Druid MPLAB XC16 C Compiler Path Property.

• Browse the file-system to select the MPLAB XC16 C Compiler path (E.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microchip\xc16\v1.33) and then click the OK button.

• Double-click on the MPLAB-X IDE property to configure the MPLAB-X IDE installation path as shown in the following figure:

Figure 12: RT-Druid MPLAB-X IDE Path Property.

• Browse the file-system to select the MPLAB-X IDE path (E.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\Microchip\MPLABX\v4.05) and then click the OK button.

• Finally, click the OK button to confirm the configuration properties as shown in the following figure:

Figure 13: RT-Druid Configured Properties.

ERIKA distribution clean

• Right-Click on EE3dsPIC33EV project into Eclipse Project Explorer panel and click on Clean Erika context-menu entry as shown in the following figure:

Figure 14: Erika Clean.

• The Clean up Erika Files dialog window will appear as shown in the following figure:

Figure 15: Clean up Erika Files.

• Click on the Yes button to clean the whole ERIKA distribution.

NOTE: the distribution folder will be automatically regenerated if the flag Build Automatically is enabled.

Figure 16: Build automatically flag.

NOTE: this operation may be necessary every time an ERIKA or RT-Druid configuration property is modified.