Keil 8051 / Linux doesn't work

JoLi

Hi,
I have a project written in A51 Assembly for the infineon C515C-L.
My PC runs Linux, so before I knew about this extension I used Keil v5 with wine, that worked perfectly fine, but with this extension, when running VSC directly on Linux, I get an Error that the compiler wasn't found.
As TOOLS.INI file I selected the one in my Keil installation in wine.

btw I only understand German/English, no Chinese, so If this question was already asked, please tell me what fixed it.

admin

JoLi

If it not found compiler, a message notification will pop up, like this:

It will tell you where it is looking for the compiler.
And the following fields must exist in your TOOLS.INI file.
```
[C51]
PATH=/your/Keil_C51/Compiler/Path
```
Now, ${C51.PATH}=/your/Keil_C51/Compiler/Path

The plug-in will find compiler in ${C51.PATH}/BIN
And for linux, executable must not have .exe suffix

If your TOOLS.INI configuration is right. Your A51 executable file location will be: ${C51.PATH}/BIN/A51

admin

JoLi My PC runs Linux, so before I knew about this extension I used Keil v5 with wine, that worked perfectly fine

if Keil v5 & wine can works well，it can also works with eide, because eide only uses the keil compiler.

All you need to do is provide the right path to help eide find the compiler.

else, If you're looking for substitute，you can use sdcc compiler.

JoLi

admin I did a bit more searching and found that there is no official Keil C51 or A51 compiler for linux.
Although I found asem-51, which works on linux. Would be nice if asem could be integrated for A51 development on linux, because at the moment there is no linux support for A51 with EIDE

P.S.: I have yet to try it out on bare metal, as I couldn't get stcgal to work with my devleopment board, but it looks promising