One great thing with Eclipse compared to proprietary IDEs are the thousands of available plugins. Yes, not every plugin is probably on the ‘must have’ list (I have listed some in a series starting with “5 Best Eclipse Plugins: #1 (Eclox with Doxygen, Graphviz and Mscgen)“).

The ‘traditional’ approach to install Eclipse plugins is using the menu Help > Install New Software. Using that approach, I have to use or enter an Eclipse update site. An easier way is to use the Eclipse Marketplace plugin which allows me to search and browse for plugins and simplifies installation of it. But as this one does not come installed by default with MCUXpresso. But it is my preferred way to browse and install plugins into Eclipse:

Eclipse Marketplace under Eclipse Neon and MCUXpresso IDE

MCUXpresso IDE Series

This article is part of a series to get up to speed using the new NXP MCUXpresso IDE. Published so far are:

Outline

This article is part of a series of articles about the MCUXpresso IDE. The NXP MCUXpresso IDE v10.0 is Eclipse Neon (4.6) based, but does not come with the Marketplace plugin installed. In this article I’m showing how to install the Eclipse Marketplace into Eclipse Neon. The Eclipse Marketplace is a plugin inside Eclipse which I can use to search, browse and install extra Eclipse plugins.

💡 The MCUXpresso IDE later than 10.0 includes now the Eclipse Marketplace client, so installing it manually is not necessary.

Installation

To install the client, use the menu Help > Install new Software and use the following update site:

http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/updates/4.6

💡 If using a different Eclipse version (e.g. kepler or mars), make sure use the corresponding update site, see https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_Project_Update_Sites

If the above update site does not work, try the following:

For Eclipse Neon (MCUXpresso IDE 10.0):

http://download.eclipse.org/releases/neon

(see http://download.eclipse.org/mpc/releases/1.5.2/ )

Installing Eclipse Marketplace Client into Eclipse Neon

MCUXpresso IDE 10.2 (Eclipse Oxygen based) already contains the Eclipse Marketplace plugin, but in any case, the update site is:

http://download.eclipse.org/releases/oxygen

Select it and go through the installation process, with a restart of Eclipse at the end.

Using the Market Place

After installation, I have a new menu item:

Eclipse Marketplace Menu

Using it, I can browse and install the plugins which are listed on the marketplace. For example I can search for a plugin like added color themes:

Eclipse Marketplace under Eclipse Neon and MCUXpresso IDE

For example I can select and install the above plugin (Darkest Dark Theme) which gives Eclipse a new look:

Darkest theme

Summary

If an Eclipse distribution does not include the Eclipse Marketplace client, it is easy to install it. After installation, I have a convenient way to get access to all the plugins available on the market place. Another usage of the Eclipse Market Place plugin is to install additional software which helps to use legacy Kinetis Design Studio projects in MCUXpresso IDE, which is the subject of the next article.

Links

MCUXpresso IDE web page: http://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/ide
MCUXpresso IDE community: http://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/ide/forum
MCUXpresso Config tools and SDK: https://mcuxpresso.nxp.com/

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You didn’t say “Happy Marketplacing!”
I’m upset now… 😦

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Erich Styger on March 31, 2017 at 05:12 said:

ups! Yes, this is an absolute ‘no-go’, sorry for that. I’m not sure why I have missed that part, and I only can appologize 😉 Fixed now 🙂

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Thank you for the tutorial. I had no idea some much stuff was available for Eclipse and MCUXpresso.

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Erich Styger on May 30, 2017 at 15:16 said:

The number of plugins can be overwhelming, and not all plugins are appicable, but many are 🙂

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Thanks for the great posts and setting up MCUXpresso. I am performing the above procedures and the IDE will NOT restart after the install. It hangs on “com.freescale.processorexpert.core”.

I performed the “Installing PE into Eclipse” post and then created a workspace and imported LPCXpresso projects and a few KDS projects. The LPC projects built correctly and KDS projects would not. I started the “Importing KDS Projects” post that lead me to this post.

Is there a proper order to the procedures when setting up a new machine with the IDE and tools?

I am going to uninstall MCU and install again and try the Marketplace Client first to see if things work better.

Thanks,

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Erich Styger on June 23, 2017 at 16:02 said:

Hi Mark,
not sure if this helps, but I have seen an issue (but not reproducible) if open a workspace with Processor Expert views open/visible by default.
What I have is a ‘clean’ (not modified) other installation of MCUXpresso IDE. In that case I open that workspace in question with the clean IDE, close the Processor Expert views, and then open the workspace with the PEx version of the IDE. So you could simply install the clean IDE into a new/different folder and try this?
Let me know, and I hope this helps,
Erich

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- Mark Skoglund on June 26, 2017 at 16:20 said:
  
  In effect it did. I had a new workspace created by MCUXpresso that I had imported a few projects. I then realized that some additional steps were not performed and that was when I was installing additional software.
  
  I did an uninstall and install, and with using the default workspace (with no projects) the remaining steps worked.
  
  thanks.
  
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I was having some trouble trying to install Marketplace in MCUXpresso, solved using http://download.eclipse.org/releases/neon/ as update site.

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Erich Styger on August 30, 2017 at 04:49 said:

Interesting, thanks for sharing. It seems that some update sites are sometimes down. Good idea to use the Neon update site instead.

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In the latest MCUXpresso 10.1.1 the market place is already included. I have tried to install Darkest Dark Theme as recommended above but get the following error:

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: DevStyle (includes Darkest Dark Theme) 1.11.0.201802122023 (com.genuitec.eclipse.theming.feature.feature.group 1.11.0.201802122023)
Missing requirement: Webclipse Common Core Platform Utilities 13.0.2.201802121258

Any idea how to solve this issue ?

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Erich Styger on February 17, 2018 at 08:38 said:

Not sure what is causing this. I just tried it again with the MCUXpressso 10.1.0 (Build 589) and it works for me?

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- Erich Styger on February 17, 2018 at 08:46 said:
  
  Hmm, maybe this helps: I had Eclox 0.8.0 installed, and it asked me to update it. Maybe this is what made it work on my side? Additionally there is the ‘Eclipse Moonsirse UI Theme’, have you tried that one too?
  
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- Erich Styger on February 17, 2018 at 09:01 said:
  
  Ok, I have now installed the 10.1.1, and indeed, that one does not work and gives your error message. But the moonrise one works?
  
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- jobe on February 19, 2018 at 13:22 said:
  
  moonrise works but i’s not as good as the Darkest Dark Theme that I really appreciate now. I would be really happy to get it on 10.1.1
  
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  - jobe on April 24, 2018 at 15:45 said:
    
    I reply to myself. The solution is here: https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/cant-install-darkestdark-theme-under-neon-2-nxp-mcuxpress/
    
    Here are the steps to install Darkest Dark successfully to MCUXpress :
    
    1. Open the IDE and go to Window > Preferences > Install/Update > Available Software Sites. Click ‘Add’ and enter the update site url for Neon in the Location field : http://download.eclipse.org/releases/neon/
    
    2. Once done, go to the Eclipse Marketplace and retry installing the Darkest Dark plugin.
    
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  - Erich Styger on April 24, 2018 at 19:25 said:
    
    Thanks for sharing that solution, appreciated!
    
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  - jobe on May 30, 2018 at 10:19 said:
    
    The above solution works for MCUXpresso 10.1.x.
    For MCUXpresso 10.2.x replace “neon” by “oxygen”:
    
    1. Open the IDE and go to Window > Preferences > Install/Update > Available Software Sites. Click ‘Add’ and enter the update site url for Neon in the Location field : http://download.eclipse.org/releases/oxygen/
    
    2. Once done, go to the Eclipse Marketplace and retry installing the Darkest Dark plugin.
    
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eikeschwarzwald on March 31, 2017 at 00:08 said:

You didn’t say “Happy Marketplacing!”
I’m upset now… 😦

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- Erich Styger on March 31, 2017 at 05:12 said:
  
  ups! Yes, this is an absolute ‘no-go’, sorry for that. I’m not sure why I have missed that part, and I only can appologize 😉 Fixed now 🙂
  
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injunear on May 30, 2017 at 14:55 said:

Thank you for the tutorial. I had no idea some much stuff was available for Eclipse and MCUXpresso.

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- Erich Styger on May 30, 2017 at 15:16 said:
  
  The number of plugins can be overwhelming, and not all plugins are appicable, but many are 🙂
  
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Mark Skoglund on June 23, 2017 at 15:58 said:

Thanks for the great posts and setting up MCUXpresso. I am performing the above procedures and the IDE will NOT restart after the install. It hangs on “com.freescale.processorexpert.core”.

I performed the “Installing PE into Eclipse” post and then created a workspace and imported LPCXpresso projects and a few KDS projects. The LPC projects built correctly and KDS projects would not. I started the “Importing KDS Projects” post that lead me to this post.

Is there a proper order to the procedures when setting up a new machine with the IDE and tools?

I am going to uninstall MCU and install again and try the Marketplace Client first to see if things work better.

Thanks,

LikeLike

Reply ↓
- Erich Styger on June 23, 2017 at 16:02 said:
  
  Hi Mark,
  not sure if this helps, but I have seen an issue (but not reproducible) if open a workspace with Processor Expert views open/visible by default.
  What I have is a ‘clean’ (not modified) other installation of MCUXpresso IDE. In that case I open that workspace in question with the clean IDE, close the Processor Expert views, and then open the workspace with the PEx version of the IDE. So you could simply install the clean IDE into a new/different folder and try this?
  Let me know, and I hope this helps,
  Erich
  
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  - Mark Skoglund on June 26, 2017 at 16:20 said:
    
    In effect it did. I had a new workspace created by MCUXpresso that I had imported a few projects. I then realized that some additional steps were not performed and that was when I was installing additional software.
    
    I did an uninstall and install, and with using the default workspace (with no projects) the remaining steps worked.
    
    thanks.
    
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Carlos Hass ✠ (@CarlosHass) on August 29, 2017 at 18:51 said:

I was having some trouble trying to install Marketplace in MCUXpresso, solved using http://download.eclipse.org/releases/neon/ as update site.

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- Erich Styger on August 30, 2017 at 04:49 said:
  
  Interesting, thanks for sharing. It seems that some update sites are sometimes down. Good idea to use the Neon update site instead.
  
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jobe on February 16, 2018 at 13:47 said:

In the latest MCUXpresso 10.1.1 the market place is already included. I have tried to install Darkest Dark Theme as recommended above but get the following error:

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
Software being installed: DevStyle (includes Darkest Dark Theme) 1.11.0.201802122023 (com.genuitec.eclipse.theming.feature.feature.group 1.11.0.201802122023)
Missing requirement: Webclipse Common Core Platform Utilities 13.0.2.201802121258

Any idea how to solve this issue ?

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- Erich Styger on February 17, 2018 at 08:38 said:
  
  Not sure what is causing this. I just tried it again with the MCUXpressso 10.1.0 (Build 589) and it works for me?
  
  LikeLike
  
  Reply ↓
  - Erich Styger on February 17, 2018 at 08:46 said:
    
    Hmm, maybe this helps: I had Eclox 0.8.0 installed, and it asked me to update it. Maybe this is what made it work on my side? Additionally there is the ‘Eclipse Moonsirse UI Theme’, have you tried that one too?
    
    LikeLike
    
    Reply ↓
  - Erich Styger on February 17, 2018 at 09:01 said:
    
    Ok, I have now installed the 10.1.1, and indeed, that one does not work and gives your error message. But the moonrise one works?
    
    LikeLike
    
    Reply ↓
  - jobe on February 19, 2018 at 13:22 said:
    
    moonrise works but i’s not as good as the Darkest Dark Theme that I really appreciate now. I would be really happy to get it on 10.1.1
    
    LikeLike
    
    Reply ↓
    - jobe on April 24, 2018 at 15:45 said:
      
      I reply to myself. The solution is here: https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/cant-install-darkestdark-theme-under-neon-2-nxp-mcuxpress/
      
      Here are the steps to install Darkest Dark successfully to MCUXpress :
      
      1. Open the IDE and go to Window > Preferences > Install/Update > Available Software Sites. Click ‘Add’ and enter the update site url for Neon in the Location field : http://download.eclipse.org/releases/neon/
      
      2. Once done, go to the Eclipse Marketplace and retry installing the Darkest Dark plugin.
      
      LikeLike
    - Erich Styger on April 24, 2018 at 19:25 said:
      
      Thanks for sharing that solution, appreciated!
      
      LikeLike
    - jobe on May 30, 2018 at 10:19 said:
      
      The above solution works for MCUXpresso 10.1.x.
      For MCUXpresso 10.2.x replace “neon” by “oxygen”:
      
      1. Open the IDE and go to Window > Preferences > Install/Update > Available Software Sites. Click ‘Add’ and enter the update site url for Neon in the Location field : http://download.eclipse.org/releases/oxygen/
      
      2. Once done, go to the Eclipse Marketplace and retry installing the Darkest Dark plugin.
      
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