Introduction

The Kinetis Freescale Build Tools Reference Manual for Microcontrollers describes usage of Freescale ARM build tools with Codewarrior for Microcontrollers

This chapter provides information about the CodeWarrior compiler and its linker, versions 10.0 and higher and explains how to use CodeWarrior tools to build programs. CodeWarrior build tools translate source code into object code then organize that object code to create a program that is ready to execute. CodeWarrior build tools run on the host system to generate software that runs on the target system. Sometimes the host and target are the same system. Usually, these systems are different.

This chapter also provides information about the documentation related to the CodeWarrior Development Studio for Microcontrollers, Version 10.x and contains these major sections:

• Compiler Architecture
  
• Linker Architecture
  
• Accompanying Documentation
  
• Additional Information Resources
  
• Miscellaneous