[ECOS] Adding STLport to eCos

[Øyvind Harboe <oyvind dot harboe at zylin dot com>]

My writeup on how to use STLport:

http://www.zylin.com/opensource.html

A list of things to consider:

- Is there any interest in doing this?

- STLport has its own makefile for compiling the source. I think trying
to change STLport to use eCos makefiles to compile itself is make-work.
The result of compiling STLport are a couple of linker libraries.

- Write a .cdl file. This .cdl file would expose a couple of sensible
configuration options, add STLport to the include path, add the STLport
linker libraries to the include path, etc.

- A couple of patches to STLport have to be committed. Minor stuff. Some
examples:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-patches/2004-01/msg00068.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-patches/2004-02/msg00072.html

- STLport consists ~600k source tar.bz2'd and ca. 1400 files. It seems
like a lot, but not too much to add to the eCos CVS.

- license issues. Looks fine. http://www.stlport.org/doc/license.html

Cons?

- STLport will be obsolete if eCos supports libstdc++.




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Øyvind Harboe
http://www.zylin.com




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