Re: [ECOS] eCos API

[Fredrik Hederstierna <fredrik at wespot dot com>]

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