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From: "Max Seidenstücker" <max.seidenstuecker@googlemail.com>
To: John Dallaway <john@dallaway.org.uk>
Cc: Stephen Finney <shf@pfinc.com>,
	eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: missing libmpfr1 in cygwin 64 bit installation
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 08:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAASVbFFLsr05CMFdwnX6JPakuRJukinHL1rKG1HD+ud9k+y8nQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5215CFA0.5000901@dallaway.org.uk>

John is right, just use Cygwin 32-bit isntead of 64-bit. There might
be an issue with building in Windows with the newest TCL8.5 libary and
cygwin1.dll that use the same namespace.

This helped the colleagues having this problem recently:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9300722/cygwin-error-bash-fork-retry-resource-temporarily-unavailable



2013/8/22 John Dallaway <john@dallaway.org.uk>:
> Hi Stephen
>
> On 21/08/13 19:35, Stephen Finney wrote:
>
>> My latest computer is Windows 7 64 bit.  I installed 64 bit cygwin so that
>> I can continue developing my ecos project.  The "Installing Cygwin for use
>> with eCos" page specifically says to select libmpfr1 (and others).  But
>> the 64 bit cygwin installer only has libmpfr4.  I selected that package
>> and continued with the installation.
>>
>> After installing the arm-eabi cross compiler, I find that it will not run.
>> At a cygwin prompt, I typed "/op/ecos/gnutools/arm-eabi/bin/arm-eabi-gcc
>> -version" and got nothing back before a new prompt.  It seems that
>> libmpfr1 is required for the eCos toolchains to run.
>
> Yes, libmpfr1 is required.
>
>> Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem?
>
> The Cygwin-hosted eCos toolchains were built before 64-bit Cygwin was
> available. These toolchains run just fine with a 32-bit Cygwin
> installation on 64-bit Windows 7 so, as a workaround, you might attempt
> a parallel installation of 32-bit Cygwin (including libmpfr1) on your
> new PC. It would be helpful to report back to this list.
>
> In the longer term, we will need to re-build the toolchains against
> libraries provided by 64-bit Cygwin.
>
> I hope this helps...
>
> John Dallaway
> eCos maintainer
> http://www.dallaway.org.uk/john
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-22  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-21 18:35 [ECOS] " Stephen Finney
2013-08-22  8:45 ` [ECOS] " John Dallaway
2013-08-22  8:52   ` Max Seidenstücker [this message]
2013-08-23 14:44   ` [ECOS] " Stephen Finney

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