Tutorial: MCUXpresso SDK With Linux, Part 1: Installation and Build With Make

I admit: my work laptop machine is running a Windows 10 OS by default. But this does not prevent me running Linux in a Virtual Machine (VM). Each host platform has its benefits, and I don’t feel biased to one or the other, but I have started using Ubuntu more and more, simply because I have worked more on Embedded Linux projects. While I have used mostly Windows with Eclipse for NXP LPC, Kinetis, and i.MX platforms in the past, I started using Ubuntu, too, from last year with the NXP MCUXpresso SDK. I did not find much documentation about this on the web, so I thought it might be a good idea to write a tutorial about it. So, here we go…

Building NXP MCUXpresso SDK on Linux Ubuntu