The CodeWarrior Development Tools is a tool suit targeting embedded systems, sold by NXP Semiconductors. It includes a compiler, linker, debugger and IDE.
The CodeWarrior Development Tools is a tool suit targeting embedded systems, sold by NXP Semiconductors. It includes a compiler, linker, debugger and IDE.
The compiler is maintained by NXP, but the various debuggers in different versions of CodeWarrior are often developed by a third party. Originally, CodeWarrior had its own unique IDE, but it is nowadays replaced by a customized Eclipse solution.
The product was originally developed by Metrowerks. Prior to the acquisition of Metrowerks by Freescale Semiconductor, versions existed for Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, Wii,[1] Palm OS, Symbian OS, and even for BeOS. Several languages were supported, including Pascal, Object Pascal, Objective-C, and Java. Currently, C, C++, and assembly language are the focus of the tools, as they are nowadays only used to program embedded systems with NXP/Freescale processors.
Since the acquisition of Freescale Semiconductor CodeWarrior is now published by NXP Semiconductors.
Origin of the name
During the 1990s, Apple Computer released a monthly series of developer CD-ROMs containing resources for programming the Macintosh. These CDs were, in the early days, whimsically titled using punning references to various movies but with a coding twist; for example, "The Hexorcist" (The Exorcist), "Lord of the Files" (Lord of the Flies), "Gorillas in the Disc" (Gorillas in the Mist), etc.[4]
One of these, volume 9, was titled "Code Warrior", referring to the movie Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior. Later Apple dropped the whimsical titling in favour of a more sober "Developer CD series". Coincidentally the Metrowerks founder, Greg Galanos, an Australian, was also inspired by the movie and proposed the CodeWarrior name. Metrowerks subsequently used the name for their new developer product.
CodeWarrior CD packaging was very much in the tradition of the Apple developer CDs, featuring slogans such as "Blood, Sweat, and Code" and "Vedi, Vici, Codi" in prominent lettering. Competing products such as Symantec's THINK C were more conventionally marketed.
