Xilinx cygwin linux cross recommendations ?

[John Linn]

I agree that VmWare is a reasonable solution.

Some of our field guys, that don't do Linux everyday, use the ELDK in a
VmWare appliance and this seems reasonable.  We never had great luck
with cygwin stuff in this area.

-- John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linuxppc-dev-bounces+john.linn=xilinx.com at ozlabs.org
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> bounces+john.linn=xilinx.com at ozlabs.org] On Behalf Of David H. Lynch
Jr.
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 5:59 PM
> To: linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org
> Subject: Xilinx cygwin linux cross recommendations ?
> 
> 
>     Does anyone have experience sugestions for building ppc/linux apps
> or even ppc kernels under windows.
> 
>     I work (and live) under Linux. I am very happy to work under
Linux.
> I only spend about 20 minutes a week in windows anymore.
> 
>     But I have coworkers, and clients that live under windows.
>     Mostly I have them working under coLinux, but even that seems to
be
> too much for many of them.
> 
>     I have been able to mangle my build environment to  work under
msys
> and use the xilinx edk cross compiler to build standalone PPC apps,
>     But the libraries do not seem to be present for linux
applications.
> 
>     I build my own uclibc crosscompiler under linux from buildroot.
>        Has anyone got experience doing that under windows ?
> 
>     Can I just copy the appropriate library binaries and use them with
> the xilinx EDK cross compiler ? Presumably I need to match versions of
GCC.
> 
>     Other suguestions ?
> 
>     Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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