[ECOS] eCos Windows/Cygwin Installation help

[ECOS] eCos Windows/Cygwin Installation help

[Joshua Fitzgerald]

I am attempting to install the eCos development environment on Windows 
XP / Cygwin. I followed what few instructions there were on the website 
but clearly no Windows tools have been installed, and the Cygwin tools 
seem to think things are not set up correctly. I did the following:

* verified that my existing Cygwin solution had the recommended 
packages, including gcc, make, sharutils, tcltk, and wget.
* invoked wget as follows: wget --passive-ftp 
ftp://ecos.sourceware.org/pub/ecos/ecos-install.tcl
* executed the install script: sh ecos-install.tcl

When I execute configtool from the Cygwin command-line, it loads but 
cannot seem to find package subdirectories with valid versions, and then 
closes. I cannot run the app from windows directly.

Any help on getting started here would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Josh Fitzgerald
San Francisco, CA



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Re: [ECOS] eCos Windows/Cygwin Installation help

[Andrew Lunn]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:25:40AM -0700, Joshua Fitzgerald wrote:
> I am attempting to install the eCos development environment on Windows 
> XP / Cygwin. I followed what few instructions there were on the website 
> but clearly no Windows tools have been installed, and the Cygwin tools 
> seem to think things are not set up correctly. I did the following:
> 
> * verified that my existing Cygwin solution had the recommended 
> packages, including gcc, make, sharutils, tcltk, and wget.
> * invoked wget as follows: wget --passive-ftp 
> ftp://ecos.sourceware.org/pub/ecos/ecos-install.tcl
> * executed the install script: sh ecos-install.tcl
> 
> When I execute configtool from the Cygwin command-line, it loads but 
> cannot seem to find package subdirectories with valid versions, and then 
> closes. I cannot run the app from windows directly.

FAQ:

Try searching the archive. That will bring you to 

http://ecoscentric.com/devzone/configtool.shtml

        Andrew

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[ECOS] ConfigTool as general library configurator

[Frank Pagliughi]

Is "configurator" a word? Anyway...

I'm working on a library that needs to support multiple platforms from a 
single code base using lots of conditional compilation, and I keep 
switching between Windows and Linux hosts. Now that the make files are 
getting completely out of control, I got to thinking about how nice it 
would be to have something like the graphical eCos Configtool to 
configure and recompile my library. Then I thought maybe the Configtool, 
itself, would work if I wrote a new "ecos.db" database for my library.

I've had some initial success, but there's still a couple hurdles:
- The Tools|Repository option takes the name of the source tree, rather 
than the database itself. The name of the database is hard-coded as 
"ecos.db"
- At least one Template is required even though the library may be 
simple enough to be defined easily with it's targets.
- The build requires link scripts, memory maps, and so on, while an 
application library archiver wouldn't need any of that. (I'm currently 
stuck on this one).
- It appears tied directly to the GNU tools, though with some tweaking 
should work with most command-line compilers.

I think if its tight integration with eCos were loosened a bit, it would 
be a great general-purpose, open-source, multi-platform, configurable 
build tool.Does any one else think so?

Or are you all just laughing at me?

Frank Pagliughi




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