From: Greg Shubin <gshubin@sonic.net>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Cc: ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] eCos with non-GNU tools
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39BFEE9A.8553CED3@sonic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200009131713.SAA03927@sheesh.cygnus.co.uk>
Related GDB questions:
Do other GDB-based GUI front ends like ddd and Emacs work with ECOS?
Does Insight have any ECOS dependencies, to should it work with any GDB
environment?
Bart Veer wrote:
> >>>>> "James" == James Dabbs <JDabbs@TGA.com> writes:
>
> James> Pardon any naivety..
> James> Has anyone build eCos with compilers other than GNU? For
> James> instance, Diab or Green Hills? If so, how did it go?
>
> James> Also, is anyone developing eCos targets from a Windows
> James> host? What were your experiences in this area?
>
> James> The real question (internally here) is whether eCos is tied
> James> to Linux/GNU/GDB, or if anyone has used MULTI or any other
> James> windows cross-IDE to build eCos projects.
>
> eCos has a number of dependencies on the GNU compilers, see
> http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/faq.html#porting_compiler
>
> It may be possible to use debuggers other than gdb, provided they can
> cope with the output of the GNU compilers and linker. If the debugging
> is intrusive, i.e. you need to run some sort of debug stub on the
> target in addition to the application, then you would have to
> integrate this stub into the system somehow. The current system comes
> only with a gdb stub because the core developers use gdb.
>
> eCos development is not tied to a Linux host, in fact one of the tools
> (the graphical configuration tool) is currently only available for
> Windows hosts. The installation instructions at
> http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/getstart.html provide information for
> both Linux and Windows hosts.
>
> I am afraid I do not know anything about MULTI, e.g. whether or not it
> allows the compiler to be selected.
>
> Bart Veer // eCos net maintainer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-13 14:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-09-13 9:43 [ECOS] eCos with non-GNU compiler James Dabbs
2000-09-13 10:13 ` Bart Veer
2000-09-13 14:04 ` Greg Shubin [this message]
2000-09-13 14:57 ` [ECOS] eCos with non-GNU tools Jonathan Larmour
2000-09-13 15:08 ` Matthew H. Gerlach
2000-09-14 5:41 ` Bart Veer
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