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Re: eCos on Windows without Cygwin
On 2007-03-01, Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com> wrote:
> If you don't agree that the dependence on Cygwin is hampering eCos,
> then don't read further.
Windows+Cygwin may indeed suck (IMO Windows+<anything> sucks).
Just do the right thing and install Linux. ;)
Windows+Cygwin is a royal pain, but it's probably not going
away. The tools Altera supplies for it's new 32-bit CPU
(NIOS2) are purely Eclipse+GCC based. On Windows, they ship
enough of Cygwin along with it to create something that almost
works.
Rathing than stating that "the dependence on Cygwin is hapering
eCos", I prefer to say that "the availability of eCos tools for
Cygwin is widening its audience.
> Problems w/Cygwin:
[lots of problems w/ Cygwin]
Yup, Cygwin sucks compared to a real Unix system. So use a
real Unix system.
> As far as I know, MinGW binaries of GCC toolchains + eCos tools is the
> most tantalizing prospect.
Except the eCos tools require a lot of support stuff (TCL,
bash shell, etc.). I don't see how MinGW binaries of GCC
toolchains are going to allow you to run fairly complex TCL and
bash programs.
> Since a eCos needs are so simple & unchanging,
eCos needs aren't really all that simple.
> I believe a MinGW based package could live relatively
> unchanged for years.
>
> Does anyone know of any organized efforts to address these
> problems?
I don't really see how it could work.
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