Using Clion; Setting Up - Raspberry Pi RP2040 Getting Started

Getting started with Raspberry Pi Pico

10.2. Using CLion

CLion is a multiplatform Integrated Development environment (IDE) from JetBrains, available for Linux, Windows and
Mac. This is a commercial IDE often the choice of professional developers (or those who love JetBrains IDEs) although
there are free or reduce price licenses available. It will run on a Raspberry Pi, however the performance is not ideal, so it
is expected you would be using CLion on your desktop or laptop.
Whilst setting up projects, development and building are a breeze, setting up debug is still not very mainstream at the
moment, so be warned.
10.2.1. Setting up CLion
If you are planning to use CLion we assume you either have it installed or can install it from
clion/
10.2.1.1. Setting up a project
Here we are using pico-examples as the example project.
To open the pico-examples project, select
directory you checked out, and press OK.
Once open you'll see something like
Figure 28. A newly
opened CLion pico-
examples project.
Notice at the bottom that CLion attempted to load the CMake project, but there was an error; namely that we hadn't
specified
PICO_SDK_PATH
10.2.1.1.1. Configuring CMake Profiles
Select
Settings...
You can set the environment variable
-DPICO_SDK_PATH=xxx
calling
cmake
PICO_TOOLCHAIN_PATH
10.2. Using CLion
Open...
Figure 28.
from the menu, and then navigate to and select 'CMake' under
File
PICO_SDK_PATH
under . These are just like the environment variables or command line args when
CMake options:
from the command line, so this is where you'd specify CMake settings such as
etc.
from the menu, and then navigate to and select the
File
under as in
Environment:
https://www.jetbrains.com/
pico-examples
.
Build, Execution, Deployment
Figure 29, or you can set it as
PICO_BOARD
,
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