Best forum for IAR EWARM wanted

[euzer]

Can anyone recommend a non-processor specific forum covering IAR EWARM, or failing that the most popular processor-specific forum for it?

I'd like to know if there's a way to compare two different build configurations without manually inspecting the multitude of settings in the project/file options dialogue boxes.

[jmag999]

Try Winmerge on the project file.

http://winmerge.org/

[dannyf]

IAR may have a forum for that.

As far as I know, no automated tools exist for that.

[fake-name]

Does it use ASCII configuration files (if it doesn't, it should).

Those should be pretty easy to diff using one of the many tools for that out there.

[euzer]

It uses xml. All the settings for all build configurations and any overridden files are contained within one file so they have to be split out to separate files to diff them and then the xml tags for any different settings need interpreting. All quite a laborious process and not a great improvement on manual comparison of dialogue box settings.

It's quite easy to loose track of the consistency of settings for multi builds with optional file overrides and is an issue I've come across on other IDEs.

In fact has any IDE got a good solution for this?

[gmb42]

I've used XML diff tools in the past, can't remember what, a quick Google search turns up DiffXML.

[engineer_in_shorts]

Not that i am aware of but sounds like a good idea to diff the xml.

I just found out that you can pass the project file in command line, kinda like a make file, if you need to build from command line. Maybe i am a bit behind the times!