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Re: Development environment under Windows without cygwin?
- From: Grant Edwards <grant dot b dot edwards at gmail dot com>
- To: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:12:13 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: [ECOS] Re: Development environment under Windows without cygwin?
- References: <3999221346CF4451878BF12BA616247D@DESKTOPITRGMBH>
On 2011-03-23, Richard Rauch <rrauch@itrgmbh.de> wrote:
> Do anybody knows a way to work without cygwin natively on Windows?
I don't.
> It seems, that cygwin is causing several problems on different windows
> environments.
Cygwin is fragile. It's a minor miracle it works at all, and a major
miracle it works as well as it does. But it's still fragile and not
easy to work with.
> Is there a way to work without cygwin?
Yes: install Linux in a virtual machine (VirtualBox, VMWare, etc.).
Seriously. It's easier than working with Windows/Cygwin.
> Is the gnu compiler/linker toolchain available for windows?
I believe so, but that's only a minor part of the problem. The shell
scripts, TCL programs, and makefiles are the tough part.
> Which versions are comparable to the arm-eabi-gcc V4.3.2?
>
> Is it possible to run the eCos Config Tool without cygwin?
I don't think so.
You're swimming against a pretty strong current.
It _may_ be possible, in theory, to do what you want -- but it's going
to take _lots_ of time and _lots_ of expertise with both Windows and
Unix command-line stuff.
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