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Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17

Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17

By : Maya Posch
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Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17

Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17

2.5 (6)
By: Maya Posch

Overview of this book

C++ is a great choice for embedded development, most notably, because it does not add any bloat, extends maintainability, and offers many advantages over different programming languages. Hands-On Embedded Programming with C++17 will show you how C++ can be used to build robust and concurrent systems that leverage the available hardware resources. Starting with a primer on embedded programming and the latest features of C++17, the book takes you through various facets of good programming. You’ll learn how to use the concurrency, memory management, and functional programming features of C++ to build embedded systems. You will understand how to integrate your systems with external peripherals and efficient ways of working with drivers. This book will also guide you in testing and optimizing code for better performance and implementing useful design patterns. As an additional benefit, you will see how to work with Qt, the popular GUI library used for building embedded systems. By the end of the book, you will have gained the confidence to use C++ for embedded programming.
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Section 1: The Fundamentals - Embedded programming and the role of C++
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Section 2: Testing, Monitoring
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Section 3: Integration with other tools and frameworks

Cross-compiling for SBCs

The compile process takes the source files, turning them into an intermediate format, after which this format can be used to target a specific CPU architecture. For us, this means that we aren't limited to compiling applications for an SBC on that SBC itself, but we can do so on our development PC.

To do so for an SBC such as the Raspberry Pi (Broadcom Cortex-A-based ARM SoCs), we need to install the arm-linux-gnueabihf toolchain, which targets the ARM architecture with hard float (hardware floating point) support, outputting Linux-compatible binaries.

On a Debian-based Linux system, we can install the entire toolchain with the following commands:

sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt install g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf
sudo apt install gdb-multiarch  

The first command installs the native GCC-based toolchain for the system (if it wasn't already...

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