I can do test automation or standalone flash programming using the Debugger Shell. But this requires me to use a view inside of Eclipse. What would be nice is to do such things from a lower level: from a Windows Command window (CMD or DOS Shell). This is possible with usage of Eclipse/CodeWarrior in command line mode.

In Show Workspace Location in the Title Bar I have used the Eclipse feature to launch it with command line arguments. A list of command line arguments is documented here. There is an interesting option: Using the -data argument I can specify the workspace:

"c:\Freescale\CW MCU v10.2\eclipse\cwide.exe" -data "c:\tm
p\wsp_StandaloneFlsh"

cmd.exe launching eclipse with a workspace

Note that there are two different executable I can use

• cwide.exe: this is what I launch normally. If I call this one from my DOS shell, then it will not wait until Eclipse has finished
• cwidec.exe: The difference to cwide.exe is that this one will wait until Eclipse finishes.

But there is one more magic option: the -vmargsplus argument:

vmargsplus argument description in the documentation

Aha! That way I can execute any Debugger Shell script from the DOS shell . What I needed to do is to add quitIDE to my script to flash a board:

############################################################
# Standalone.tcl: a script file to flash my application
############################################################

# in any case, disconnect an existing debug connection
fl::disconnect

# set launch configuration:
fl::target -lc "LC for Simple Flash"

# set Set the target RAM buffer for downloading image data:
fl::target -b 0x20000000 0xffff

# switch off verify and logging:
fl::target -v off -l off

# select flash device, organization and memory range:
cmdwin::fl::device -d "CFM_MCF5225X_512" -o "256Kx16x1" -a 0x0 0x7ffff

# specify target file, auto detect format, range settings on followed by the flash range, offset settings off
cmdwin::fl::image -f "C:\\tmp\\wsp_StandaloneFlsh\\Application.S19" -t "Auto Detect" -re on -r 0x0 0x7ffff -oe off

# now erase the flash...
cmdwin::fl::erase image

# ... followed by writing the application to flash:
cmdwin::fl::write

# disconnect connection
fl::disconnect

# exit Eclipse IDE
quitIDE

From the DOS shell, I launch it like this:

"c:\Freescale\CW MCU v10.2\eclipse\cwide.exe" -data "c:\tm
p\wsp_StandaloneFlsh" -vmargsplus -Dcw.script="c:\tmp\wsp_StandaloneFlsh\standalone.tcl"

That way no user interaction is required: launching a batch file and things are flashed to the board.

Happy Shelling