Keila is a free and powerful IDE designed for ARM and Cortex-M based microcontrollers. In this tutorial, we will walk through the steps on how to install Keila on Alpine Linux Latest.
Before installing Keila, ensure that Alpine Linux is up to date and has the necessary packages installed. You will need the wget and unzip packages installed.
sudo apk update && sudo apk upgrade
sudo apk add wget unzip
To download Keila, we need to navigate to their website, https://www.keila.io, and select the latest version for Alpine Linux.
wget https://www.keil.com/download/files/c51/c51_v954a.exe
Keila is a Windows application and therefore requires a compatibility layer to run on Linux. We will use Wine to install Keila.
sudo apk add wine
We can now use Wine to install Keila by running the following command:
wine c51_v954a.exe
This will launch the installer. Follow the on-screen prompts to install Keila. Once the installation is complete, Keila will be installed under the ~/.wine/drive_c/Keil_v5 directory.
We need to set the environment variables to point to Keila's binaries and libraries. Add the following lines to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file:
export ARM_ROOT=~/.wine/drive_c/Keil_v5/ARM
export PATH="$ARM_ROOT/ARMCC/bin:$ARM_ROOT/ARMCLANG/bin:$PATH"
Congratulations! You have successfully installed Keila on Alpine Linux. You can now start developing on ARM and Cortex-M based microcontrollers.
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