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Re: eCos on Windows without Cygwin
Øyvind Harboe 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.
>From my experience Cygwin X is not a hassle, Cygwin might be hassle for
eCos, I haven't tried, I wouldn't judge, but Cyfwin X works pretty well
as an X server (terminal), It's part of Cygwin after all, you can
install it with the same Cygwin setup tool.
> Having a
> virtual linux box is also a lot of hassle...
You don't need virtual Linux since you can use a real one (and probably
multiple users can share single machine if it has enough resources). It
can be on other machine, anywhere on net. All you need is a decent
TCP/IP connection - I have used it on 10MB/s... once upon a time ;-)
> 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! :-)
Yes, probably in large companies the managers and not engineers make
decisions, but maybe, if there's demand, someone will see competitive
advantage in porting tools to Linux.
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