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8.2 Create Own Application
Precondition:
To be able to create an application, the toolchain must be installed on your platform that are you using for
application development. Refer therefor to Toolchain (see "Toolchain" on page 284).
Compile a program:
There are basically two ways to compile a program:
Using the IDE: This is a comfortable way that uses the CodeBlocks IDE.
Using the shell: This is the classic way to compile a program. It uses the shell and a make file or directly the
cross compiler gcc.
In this chapter both paths are described.
8.2.1 Create New Project
Create a practical directory structure for the new project. Folder for source files, for the project file, for libraries
and for the result are needed.
Example for the directory structure: