Re: [ECOS] eCos with non-GNU tools

[Greg Shubin <gshubin at sonic dot net>]

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