Parallella Community

I'm wondering if anyone knows how to program the Parallella
on the board itself. It seems that you need the Eclipse IDE to
make use of the SDK. Eclipse does not run on Parallella Linux
as far as I can tell. Is there a way to compile using command line
or scripts? My setup for the moment is my board hooked up to the TV
with a keyboard and mouse with ethernet only sometimes for internet.
(I'm a linux newbie, so I may be missing something here.)

slowboy

Hi Slowboy,

You don't need Eclipse to develop for Parallella and you can certainly do this on the board itself. Take a look at the (official examples from Adapteva) and (community contributed examples). You will see that programs are simply text files, built with make and GCC etc. The biggest difference between programming Parallella and, say, a PC or Raspberry Pi etc. being that your program is split into the part which runs on the ARM host and the part(s) which run on the Epiphany core(s).

Cheers,

Andrew

Thanks, Andrew. That clears up a lot.

slowboy