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AW: eCos on Windows without Cygwin
- From: "Neundorf, Alexander" <Alexander dot Neundorf at jenoptik dot com>
- To: "eCos Discussion" <ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 10:29:39 +0100
- Subject: AW: [ECOS] eCos on Windows without Cygwin
> [mailto:ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org]Im Auftrag von Øyvind
> Harboe
>
> 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! :-)
...and it continues with vendors for other stuff, like compilers for DSPs, 16bit controllers, etc.
Alex
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