Invoking IAR binary utilities

Introduction

CMake automatically detects the IAR Build Tools and provides internal variables for them, making possible to invoke its binary utilities directly from a CMake project.

Description

cmake_minimum_required()	Tool	CMake internal variable
3.31	IAR ELF Dumper	CMAKE_IAR_ELFDUMP
3.31	IAR ELF Tool	CMAKE_IAR_ELFTOOL
3.31	IAR ELF Exe to Object Tool	CMAKE_IAR_EXE2OBJ
3.31	IAR Object File Manipulator	CMAKE_IAR_OBJMANIP
3.31	IAR Absolute Symbol Exporter	CMAKE_IAR_SYMEXPORT
4.1	IAR C-STAT Command Line Interface	CMAKE_IAR_CSTAT
4.1	IAR C-STAT Checks Manifest Handler	CMAKE_IAR_CHECKS
4.1	IAR C-STAT Report Generator	CMAKE_IAR_REPORT

Important

Please notice that these references expect their respective tools being available in the installed toolchain.

Example

In the example below, the IAR ELF Tool is used at the post-build stage for converting the executable output from myTarget to its binary form, in the Intel Extended format (*.hex):

add_custom_command(TARGET myTarget
  POST_BUILD 
  COMMAND ${CMAKE_IAR_ELFTOOL} --silent --ihex $<TARGET_FILE:myTarget> myTarget.hex)

Related resources

• Use the IAR ELF Tool to convert executable targets to their binary formats