Re: [ECOS] ECOS: compiler builds.

[jlarmour@cygnus.co.uk (Jonathan Larmour)]

In article <37B9FAFC.2AE6765@dgs.monash.edu.au> you write:
>
>I am contemplating using eCos on an embedded product using the MPC860
>processor.  It has three processor boards.  1 board requires TCP/IP and
>SNMP as well as PCMCIA support.  I don't think eCos can support these at
>the moment (please correct me if I am wrong)

It can't without commercial software from one of our partners, no.

>I was reading the document and it says to download the ecos software
>tools and to compile them.  I already have built an egcs-1.1.2
>cross-compiler that targets powerpc-eabi.  Can I use this.  I don't see
>any reasons why not.

I'm 99% certain egcs-1.1.2 does not support constructor priority ordering
for powerpc-eabi. But you should be able to use either gcc-2.95 or the
eCos software tools we provide.

>I'd like to use Insight as my debugger.  I am in the process of building
>this for a powerpc-eabi target and can see no reasons why this should
>not work.  Any comments ?

We've used it happily here on both Windows and Unix, so there really
shouldn't be any problems.

Hope this helps,

Jifl
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