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by hippy
Wed Oct 12, 2011 11:54 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Useful experiences Cross-Compiling on Windows
Replies: 3
Views: 1752

Re: Useful experiences Cross-Compiling on Windows

<t>Excellent stuff and just one suggestion ... a little more detail please on where to download from, which package/variant of the tools to grab, and where to put them. For example it isn\'t clear if Codeblocks should be the setup.exe or mingw-setup.exe package, if the Sourcery G++ Lite should be th...
by Scribe
Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:47 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Useful experiences Cross-Compiling on Windows
Replies: 3
Views: 1752

Re: Useful experiences Cross-Compiling on Windows

<r>Hello everyone!<br/> <br/> Recognising how difficult cross-compiling can be for embedded n00bs, especially those looking to cross-compile with Windows, I\'ve ...
by Scribe
Sat Oct 08, 2011 3:41 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: [Request] Please add some more Ram, they are really cheap right now.
Replies: 95
Views: 17118

Re: [Request] Please add some more Ram, they are really cheap right now.

... no daft bugs and it's coded in c++ so fast and small. Works fine with cross-compiling.</r>
by asb
Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:07 am
Forum: Other projects
Topic: RaspberryPi as extremely cheap digital signage
Replies: 62
Views: 80601

Re: RaspberryPi as extremely cheap digital signage

<t>Python is definitely no barrier, it's just going to be cross-compiling the libraries and getting them to use the available hardware for accelerating video decode. ...
by Scribe
Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:24 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Advise on cross-compiling with CodeSourcery
Replies: 4
Views: 2588

Re: Advise on cross-compiling with CodeSourcery

... 5, 2011, 19:23<e>[/b]</e></B><br/> You\'re missing a step. No biggie- cross-compilation\'s not as simple as some make it out to be. <E>;)</E><br/> ... set up a Scratchbox2 setup there for this so that while you\'re cross-compiling, your apps\' build scripts think it\'s building on the target even ...
by Svartalf
Wed Oct 05, 2011 6:23 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Advise on cross-compiling with CodeSourcery
Replies: 4
Views: 2588

Re: Advise on cross-compiling with CodeSourcery

<r>You\'re missing a step. No biggie- cross-compilation\'s not as simple as some make it out to be. <E>;)</E><br/> <br/> ... if not set up a Scratchbox2 setup there for this so that while you\'re cross-compiling, your apps\' build scripts think it\'s building on the target even though ...
by Scribe
Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:06 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Advise on cross-compiling with CodeSourcery
Replies: 4
Views: 2588

Re: Advise on cross-compiling with CodeSourcery

<r>OK so I\'ve done the following to force my program to use the correct libraries:<br/> <CODE><s>[code]</s>> ./lib/ld-linux.so.3 \\ --library-path ./lib:./libc/usr/lib \\ /home/alistair/hello.wt.1<e>[/code]</e></CODE> The idea being I use the dynamic linker to link libraries to my program hello.wt....
by Scribe
Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:31 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Advise on cross-compiling with CodeSourcery
Replies: 4
Views: 2588

Re: Advise on cross-compiling with CodeSourcery

Ah I see now =P read the manual.
by Scribe
Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:32 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Advise on cross-compiling with CodeSourcery
Replies: 4
Views: 2588

Re: Advise on cross-compiling with CodeSourcery

<r>Hi guys,<br/> <br/> I\'ve just cross-compiled Wt with codesourcery and am trying to test the program out on QEMU running Debian on the raspberry\'s ARM core.<br/> <br/> I\'m sadly getting the follow error when I attempt to run the program:<br/> ...
by Scribe
Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:10 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: [Request] Please add some more Ram, they are really cheap right now.
Replies: 95
Views: 17118

Re: [Request] Please add some more Ram, they are really cheap right now.

... doesn't help one bit). For me this has resulted in trying to set-up a cross-compile environment with my Windows PC, which is proving difficult ... you're dancing around each distribution's unique habits and systems and compiling libraries that don't have a pre-built binary for the specific distro.</t>
by Svartalf
Mon Oct 03, 2011 2:25 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Pre-compiled popular libraries used in projects
Replies: 8
Views: 3618

Re: Pre-compiled popular libraries used in projects

... from rmike on October 1, 2011, 19:42<br/> Hi,<br/> in my opinion a cross compile setup like <URL url="http://trac.cross-lfs.org/">http://trac.cross-lfs.org/</URL> would be the appropriate way to go. Compiling could than take place on a faster PC.<br/> The problem with this approach ...
by hippy
Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:07 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Pre-compiled popular libraries used in projects
Replies: 8
Views: 3618

Re: Pre-compiled popular libraries used in projects

... on October 1, 2011, 16:28<br/> This sounds like a very good idea. Compiling stuff the right way is both hard and off-putting, so having experts ... Linux or its tools and will not have the tool chains, other system to cross-compile upon, nor knowledge to do it.<br/> <br/> Those who wish to ...
by asb
Sat Oct 01, 2011 7:06 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Pre-compiled popular libraries used in projects
Replies: 8
Views: 3618

Re: Pre-compiled popular libraries used in projects

... from rmike on October 1, 2011, 19:42<br/> Hi,<br/> in my opinion a cross compile setup like <URL url="http://trac.cross-lfs.org/">http://trac.cross-lfs.org/</URL> would be the appropriate way to go. Compiling could than take place on a faster PC.<br/> The problem with this approach ...
by rmike
Sat Oct 01, 2011 6:42 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Pre-compiled popular libraries used in projects
Replies: 8
Views: 3618

Re: Pre-compiled popular libraries used in projects

<r>Hi,<br/> in my opinion a cross compile setup like <URL url="http://trac.cross-lfs.org/">http://trac.cross-lfs.org/</URL> would be the appropriate way to go. Compiling could than take place on a faster PC.<br/> The problem with this approach is that many ...
by ShiftPlusOne
Sun Sep 25, 2011 10:06 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: are you spoiling it?
Replies: 10
Views: 2629

Re: are you spoiling it?

... forced to watch from the sidelines. We\'ve got emulated raspi and cross-compiling environments up and running, so we can work on our own distros, optimize existing ...
by jamesh
Mon Sep 19, 2011 3:03 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Any default platform updates?
Replies: 14
Views: 3197

Re: Any default platform updates?

... plugin (PyDev for example). Or are you meaning Eclipse on a host PC cross compiling?<br/> <br/> I see no reason (although not tried) why FTDI stuff won't work.<br/> ...
by jamesh
Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:57 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Any default platform updates?
Replies: 14
Views: 3197

Re: Any default platform updates?

... plugin (PyDev for example). Or are you meaning Eclipse on a host PC cross compiling?<br/> <br/> I see no reason (although not tried) why FTDI stuff won't work.</t>
by blc
Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:08 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Windows 8 to support ARM!
Replies: 101
Views: 21039

Re: Windows 8 to support ARM!

... (the fancy "tiles" thing) will work on both x86 and ARM with no cross-compiling or separate versions needed. What that means in terms of ARM hardware requirements ...
by reggie
Sun Aug 28, 2011 6:09 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Ri-P as development platform?
Replies: 19
Views: 4014

Re: Ri-P as development platform?

... Liz, I take it you will provide a reasonable tutorial for installing a cross-compiling toolchain? I think that might be the main issue for people. Also, compiling on the ...
by eggn1n3
Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:16 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Ri-P as development platform?
Replies: 19
Views: 4014

Re: Ri-P as development platform?

Although cross-compiling on a X86 platform is no problem, I was wondering if the Ri-P itself can be used for development? It would make development a lot easier to test your just compiled ARM-source on your Ri-P instead of setting up QEMU to test it....
by ShiftPlusOne
Thu Aug 18, 2011 1:30 am
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Rolling/Porting Distributions
Replies: 9
Views: 3648

Re: Rolling/Porting Distributions

... <br/> I don't know how appropriate gentoo is though. If you're cross-compiling on the desktop, then it's ok. Otherwise updates will take ages to compile. I am going ...
by Svartalf
Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:35 pm
Forum: Automation, sensing and robotics
Topic: Raspberry Pi Controlled Relays (for sprinklers) (Difficulty: Advanced)
Replies: 23
Views: 7240

Re: Raspberry Pi Controlled Relays (for sprinklers) (Difficulty: Advanced)

... It's an interesting solution. Porting would probably be more simply cross-compiling and attaching it to the GPIO driver...</r>
by jamesh
Tue Aug 16, 2011 11:21 am
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Cross Compile Development Environments
Replies: 17
Views: 4256

Re: Cross Compile Development Environments

... the GPU, so no real IP involved.<br/> <br/> Is someone were to port the drivers, and then find some way of getting hold of win8 source code, them compiling the whole lot for Arm11, then that might work - but that's a lot of if's and the Arm11 may not be powerful enough to run windows anyway. If ...
by ShiftPlusOne
Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:56 am
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Cross Compile Development Environments
Replies: 17
Views: 4256

Re: Cross Compile Development Environments

... I've managed to get the toolchain ready, but having trouble compiling the kernel with it.</r>
by jamesh
Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:33 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Cross Compile Development Environments
Replies: 17
Views: 4256

Re: Cross Compile Development Environments

<t>Eclipse can be set up to cross compile (you can specify what compiler you want to use). You'll need to either ... I think gcc just has command line switches to specify which flavour of Arm you are compiling for.<br/> <br/> I'm going to try and all this up at home on my Ubuntu box ...

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