From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.chez-thomas.org (hermes.mlbassoc.com [76.76.67.137]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A8B9DDEDA for ; Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:18:11 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <49C37B5A.1080307@mlbassoc.com> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:17:46 -0600 From: Gary Thomas MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dhlii@dlasys.net Subject: Re: Xilinx cygwin linux cross recommendations ? References: <49C2DC5D.6000701@dlasys.net> <49C2EA49.90907@dlasys.net> In-Reply-To: <49C2EA49.90907@dlasys.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: > I have no experience with ELDK. > Have you used it ? Do you like it ? > > When I started I mostly did a roll my own environment using crosstool. > I would have stuck to that except I can not get uclibc and it has > not been updated in a long time. > Crosstool-ng did not support the ppc last time I looked. Look again - PowerPC is quite well supported by CrossTool-ng > Today I use buildroot - mostly just to build a toolchain - I have > never been able to get it to do many of the other things it is capable of. > > I am not particularly fond (serious understatement) of "integrated > solve all the problems of the world" environments, they rarely work, and > you must think inside their box. > > I would be ecstatic with just a cygwin-linux-ppc-uclibc tool chain. > Why not just skip the torture (CygWin) and just run a virtual machine on Windows [I assume you _have_ to have Windows]. Both VM-Ware and VirtualBox handle this problem beautifully. Then you have *Linux* for your development environment, not some cobbled set of pieces... > > Grant Likely wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:59 PM, David H. Lynch Jr. wrote: >> >>> Does anyone have experience sugestions for building ppc/linux apps >>> or even ppc kernels under windows. >>> >> I hear rumors that there is a Windows version of ELDK. >> >> > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Gary Thomas | Consulting for the MLB Associates | Embedded world ------------------------------------------------------------