An experimental version of the xcdl command line application, implemented in JavaScript in the node.js framework. The project is publicly available from GitHub.

node.js is a JavaScript runtime. Download the latest installer package from Current and install it. The default install location is somewhere in the system folders (like /usr/local/bin/node and /usr/local/lib/node_modules). If you prefer a sandboxed setup, download the binary archive (see the All download options link down the page) and unpack it in a folder of your choice.

npm is the package manager for JavaScript. Normally it comes bundled with node.js, so no need to install it separately.

However it is recommended from time to time to update npm to the latest version:

sudo npm install npm -g

(the -g is required to update the global version; without this option it will install a local version in the user home folder).

The xcdl binary module is available from the npm repository as xcdl and can be installed with:

sudo npm install xcdl -g

The utility is installed somewhere in the system folders (like /usr/local/bin/xcdl and /usr/local/lib/node_modules), and can be executed directly with the xcdl` command.

It is also possible to install the xcdl utility locally, in the user home folder:

npm install xcdl

In this case the default install location is in $HOME/node-modules, and can be executed with the ~/node_modules/xcdl/bin/xcdl command.

The only command implemented is generate-xpdsc, to extract content from a CMSIS .PDSC file and store it in JSON, to be included in xPacks (XCDL packages).

xcdl generate-xpdsc -i pdsc -o json

The current development environment is based on Visual Studio Code. The initial development environment was Eclipse with the nodeclipse plug-ins, but results were disappointing.

To publish the module, update the version field in package.json and run:

cd xcdl-js.git
npm publish

As an experiment, this code was intentionally kept simple; asynchronous calls were avoided (actually were not needed at all).

Error processing is minimalistic; same for command line processing.