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Re: need help on edb7211 + ecos 1.3.1 + arm toolchain
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- Subject: Re: [ECOS] need help on edb7211 + ecos 1.3.1 + arm toolchain
- From: "Wilson Kwan" <wilson at kinesphere dot com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:56:39 -0500
- References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010213083836.00ad0230@larwe.com>
> Thomas,
>
> >I have the Cirrus Logic Evaluation Board EDB7211. I tried running eCos
1.3.1
> >under WinNT. To do this I need a running arm toolchain.
>
> Oh dear... :) If you look through the archive of this list, you'll see
that
> I struggled with this one for a long time too.
>
> I can email you my Win32 toolchain as a zipfile (just unzip it to
> cygwin/tools) if you want. It is an arm-elf toolchain based around gcc
> 2.95.2 (so it does NOT support Thumb). At this time I do not believe there
> is any way to get gcc's thumb support working under cygwin; I tried for
> months (off and on) and although it's possible eventually to build
> something (by manually cutting out bits of source files that don't compile
> properly), the result is non-functional.
I have been able to get the cygwin / gnu toolchain running under Win NT
2000. Make sure you use the net release of the cygwin tools. I followed the
directions on the eCos website for building the tools under Win32. I am also
able to build the CVS version of eCos under NT 2000.
Wilson