# How to develop with freertos in eclipse

**URL:** <https://forums.freertos.org/t/how-to-develop-with-freertos-in-eclipse/8762>\
**Category:** Kernel\
**Created:** [February 7, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/how-to-develop-with-freertos-in-eclipse/8762 "2020-02-07T12:36:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![applepiemyguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@applepiemyguy](https://forums.freertos.org/u/applepiemyguy)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 12:36pm UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/how-to-develop-with-freertos-in-eclipse/8762/1 "2020-02-07T12:36:46Z")

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Hi, I am just getting started with freertos, and am trying to figure out an IDE that will work with the demo applications. I am just trying to build and run the blinky applications, but it seems that every demo requires running a project file specific to a certain IDE, ie Keil, VS. I would like to run these projects in eclipse, but I am not sure how to do that. If I import the .h files to include and .c to source will the project work properly?

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**Author:** ![rtel](https://d3iykfbgfh8zhg.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/forums.freertos.org/rtel/32/31_2.png) [@rtel](https://forums.freertos.org/u/rtel)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/how-to-develop-with-freertos-in-eclipse/8762/2 "2020-02-07T13:59:45Z")

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Is your question related to which files to build - or how to use Eclipse?

The following links may help if the former:

> **[Creating a new RTOS project](https://www.freertos.org/Creating-a-new-FreeRTOS-project.html)**
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> Create and use an RTOS project

  

> **[FreeRTOS - Porting a FreeRTOS demo to a different hardware platform](https://www.freertos.org/porting-a-freertos-demo-to-different-hardware.html)**
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> FreeRTOS is a portable, open source, mini Real Time kernel. A free RTOS for small embedded systems

Other than that the majority of projects in the download build with some adaptation of Eclipse. Here are examples that use ‘vanilla’ Eclipse:  
[https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/FreeRTOS/Demo/RISC-V-Qemu-sifive\_e-Eclipse-GCC](https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/FreeRTOS/Demo/RISC-V-Qemu-sifive_e-Eclipse-GCC)  
[https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/FreeRTOS/Demo/WIN32-MingW](https://sourceforge.net/p/freertos/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/FreeRTOS/Demo/WIN32-MingW)

Others are just branded versions of Eclipse - such as Soft Console (Microsemi projects), Code Composer Studio (TI projects), Freedom Studio (SiFive projects), MCUXpresso (NXP projects), etc.