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RE: Redhat eCos Installed in WIN95
- To: <bartv at redhat dot com>,<diem dot b dot dang at delphiauto dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Redhat eCos Installed in WIN95
- From: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at extremeeng dot com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 08:43:03 -0600
- Cc: <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Extreme Engineering
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com] On
> Behalf Of Bart Veer
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 8:57 AM
> To: diem.b.dang@delphiauto.com
> Cc: ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: [ECOS] Redhat eCos Installed in WIN95
>
>
> >>>>> "Julian" == Julian Smart <julians@redhat.com> writes:
>
> >> Is it obligated that eCos from Redhat should
> be installed in
> >> WIN NT or WIN 2000 ?
> >>
> >> What is the limitation if it's installed in WIN 9X ?
>
> The main problem is with cygwin, which is a
> prerequisite for the compiler, gdb, etc. For some
> people these things work fine under win9x, at least
> most of the time. For other people it fails, in a
> variety of ways. The official position according to
> the cygwin faq @
> > http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html#SE
> C64
I found that the only way to get the development tools working in Win9x
is to compile under Win2000 and then tar.gz them up and use them in
Win9x.