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Re: eCos on Windows without Cygwin
On 2007-03-02, Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com> wrote:
> On 3/2/07, Ilija Koco <ilijak@siva.com.mk> wrote:
>> You could use Cygwin X <http://x.cygwin.com/> as an X terminal to your
>> Linux machine and get eCos and FPGA together at your desktop.
>> I used to use Cygwin X for a long time, because I had some dev tools
>> that ran only on Windows. I haven't tried it with eCos configtool, but
>> all apps I have tried (Insight, Kdbg, Firefox, etc.) ran without problems.
>
> The problem with Cygwin is that it is a lot of hassle. Having
> a virtual linux box is also a lot of hassle... If coLinux was
> sharpned quite a few notches(in terms of beating the crap out
> of Cygwin w.r.t. installation), it might be a viable option.
>
>> Of course, still best hit is to convince FPGA vendors to start
>> porting their tools to Linux.
>
> A rather quixotic undertaking! :-)
Just buy from the ones that do support Linux (e.g. Altera) and
tell your old vendor why you're leaving. They'll get the
message.
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