From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc•com>
To: dhlii@dlasys•net
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org
Subject: Re: Xilinx cygwin linux cross recommendations ?
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:17:46 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C37B5A.1080307@mlbassoc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49C2EA49.90907@dlasys.net>
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. <dhlii@dlasys•net> 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.
>>
>>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-20 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-19 23:59 Xilinx cygwin linux cross recommendations ? David H. Lynch Jr.
2009-03-20 0:16 ` Grant Likely
2009-03-20 0:58 ` David H. Lynch Jr.
2009-03-20 11:17 ` Gary Thomas [this message]
2009-03-23 17:17 ` John Linn
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