Re: [ECOS] Re: Errors making a component of eCos

[John Dallaway <jld at ecoscentric dot com>]

Hi Gregg

You wrote:

> Okay, here's the scoop, I gave the standard command to the Cygwin prompt,
> as you suggested, and it returned this one,
> "CYGWIN_98-4.10 who5 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown
> unknown Cygwin", doesn't mean anything to me. It might mean something to
> you. And that does contain the specie of Windows I have here. I hear what
> you are saying that the pre-century versions of Windows are considered to
> be unsupported by the team,

Specifically, it is Win95/98/ME that we no longer test against.

> but I do not have the budget to upgrade my
> hardware, which Dell prefers. That being stated, is there any other
> advice in the offering?

Certain recent versions of the Cygwin DLL are known to have problems when 
running on Win95/98/ME which cause memory corruption resulting in internal 
compiler errors. I should stress that these problems do not affect 
WinNT4/2k/XP users. You could try using an earlier version of Cygwin. For 
example, the GNU toolchains contributed by eCosCentric do appear to work OK 
with Cygwin 1.3.18 on Win98 hosts. However, my only recommendation would be 
to upgrade to an operating system against which eCos 2.0 has been tested.

John Dallaway
eCosCentric Limited


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