# MCUXpresso installer

Download "MCUXpresso Installer" (not a plain IDE package - NXP replaced that
with an installer app) from https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso (NXP account
required) and place the Linux download in this directory before running
`docker compose build mcuxpresso-agent`.

The file NXP ships is named something like `MCUXpressoInstaller.deb.bin` - a
Makeself self-extracting archive wrapping an Electron app, not a `.deb` you
can `apt install` directly. The Dockerfile unpacks it, pulls out the real
`.deb` inside, and uses the app's bundled `MCUXpressoInstallerCLI` binary to
fetch the toolchain non-interactively (no NXP login needed for the actual
component downloads - see the Dockerfile for how). It picks up the first
`*.deb.bin` it finds here, so you only need one file present at a time.

By default the image bakes in the Arm GNU Toolchain, CMake, and Ninja (see
`agents/mcuxpresso/Dockerfile`). To install additional packages/components
(e.g. an MCUXpresso SDK bundle, LinkServer, SEGGER J-Link support), run:

```bash
docker run --rm jenkins-docker-mcuxpresso-agent mcux-cli install --help
```

to see every available `-p`/`-c` choice, then add them to the `mcux-cli
install` line in the Dockerfile.

This directory is gitignored except for this README.