Xilinx cygwin linux cross recommendations ?

Xilinx cygwin linux cross recommendations ?

[David H. Lynch Jr.]

    Does anyone have experience sugestions for building ppc/linux apps
or even ppc kernels under windows.

    I work (and live) under Linux. I am very happy to work under Linux. 
I only spend about 20 minutes a week in windows anymore.

    But I have coworkers, and clients that live under windows.
    Mostly I have them working under coLinux, but even that seems to be
too much for many of them.

    I have been able to mangle my build environment to  work under msys
and use the xilinx edk cross compiler to build standalone PPC apps,
    But the libraries do not seem to be present for linux applications.

    I build my own uclibc crosscompiler under linux from buildroot.
       Has anyone got experience doing that under windows ?

    Can I just copy the appropriate library binaries and use them with
the xilinx EDK cross compiler ? Presumably I need to match versions of GCC.

    Other suguestions ?

    Thanks.




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Re: Xilinx cygwin linux cross recommendations ?

[Grant Likely]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:59 PM, David H. Lynch Jr. <dhlii@dlasys.net> wrot=
e:
> =A0 =A0Does 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.

--=20
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.

Re: Xilinx cygwin linux cross recommendations ?

[David H. Lynch Jr.]

    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.
    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.

   
   
   

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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Dave Lynch 					  	    DLA Systems
Software Development:  				         Embedded Linux
717.627.3770 	       dhlii@dlasys.net 	  http://www.dlasys.net
fax: 1.253.369.9244 			           Cell: 1.717.587.7774
Over 25 years' experience in platforms, languages, and technologies too numerous to list.

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
Albert Einstein

Re: Xilinx cygwin linux cross recommendations ?

[Gary Thomas]

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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Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
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RE: Xilinx cygwin linux cross recommendations ?

[John Linn]

I agree that VmWare is a reasonable solution.

Some of our field guys, that don't do Linux everyday, use the ELDK in a
VmWare appliance and this seems reasonable.  We never had great luck
with cygwin stuff in this area.

-- John

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> bounces+john.linn=3Dxilinx.com@ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of David H. Lynch
Jr.
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:59 PM
> To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
> Subject: Xilinx cygwin linux cross recommendations ?
> =

> =

>     Does anyone have experience sugestions for building ppc/linux apps
> or even ppc kernels under windows.
> =

>     I work (and live) under Linux. I am very happy to work under
Linux.
> I only spend about 20 minutes a week in windows anymore.
> =

>     But I have coworkers, and clients that live under windows.
>     Mostly I have them working under coLinux, but even that seems to
be
> too much for many of them.
> =

>     I have been able to mangle my build environment to  work under
msys
> and use the xilinx edk cross compiler to build standalone PPC apps,
>     But the libraries do not seem to be present for linux
applications.
> =

>     I build my own uclibc crosscompiler under linux from buildroot.
>        Has anyone got experience doing that under windows ?
> =

>     Can I just copy the appropriate library binaries and use them with
> the xilinx EDK cross compiler ? Presumably I need to match versions of
GCC.
> =

>     Other suguestions ?
> =

>     Thanks.
> =

> =

> =

> =

> --
> Dave Lynch 					  	    DLA Systems
> Software Development:
Embedded Linux
> 717.627.3770 	       dhlii@dlasys.net 	  http://www.dlasys.net
> fax: 1.253.369.9244 			           Cell: 1.717.587.7774
> Over 25 years' experience in platforms, languages, and technologies
too numerous to list.
> =

> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a
> lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
> Albert Einstein
> =

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