From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fredrik Hederstierna To: Grant Edwards Cc: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" , james chen , ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] eCos API Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:50:00 -0000 Message-id: <3ADFDBE3.CA841E20@wespot.com> References: <000d01c0c885$60e1f300$c408aa0a@inc.inventec> <4.3.2.7.2.20010419002249.031d5dc0@mail.larwe.com> <20010419094458.A27256@visi.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-04/msg00246.html We have developed a dynamical loader for applications in the ELF file format. It works very well I think! Best Regards, Fredrik Hederstierna WeSpot AB SWEDEN Grant Edwards wrote: > > > Hi, many RTOS e.g. WinCE, Paml, etc. allow user to use it's API to > > >develop applications and download it to it's system. Now I want to support > > > > eCos does not support user-installable applications. It is a > > monolithic, statically-linked OS+application. > > Exactly. If you need to support the dynamic loading of > applications, then eCos is probably not a good choice for OS. > You might want to look at uCLinux -- I presume it does dynamic > loading of applications. > > Developing a dynamic linker/loader for eCos would take a fair > amount of work -- especially if you wanted applications to > share run-time libraries. If all you wanted was a > position-independant way to make system calls, that wouldn't be > quite as bad. > > -- > Grant Edwards > grante@visi.com