Getting started - what & where to download?

[Angelo Fraietta]

I would seriously recommend using the pre built RPMs if Mandrake will let you
install them

Matthew J Fletcher wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > egcs 1.1b
> > binutils 2.9.1
> > newlib 1.8.0
> > RTEMS 4.0.0. (I downloaded 4.5)
> > RTEMS hello world
> > RTEMS Specific tool patches and scripts
>
> > Since the document is quite old ('98), I would like to know whether these
> > versions are still applicable to compile RTEMS 4.5.0?  Do I need to
> > download anything else?
>
> these are all older versions, if you get the latest of everything
> binutils,newlib,gdb etc and then apply the RTEMS patches you will be ok.
>
> With two notes, firstly gcc 3.0.x is not recomended, 2.9.53 works just fine
> as
> does egcs 1.2. With RTEMS itself you can either use the 4.5.0 release or the
> snapshots, the 4.5.0 release is realy quite out of date now.
>
> > I read somewhere about a GNU IDE - can I use that for RTEMS?  Is anybody
> > using the IDE?  Where can I download the RPM for it?
>
> There are several very nice dev enviroments for linux, being a mandrake 8.0
> person, you have the wonderfull kdevelop 1.4 installed, but there are many
> others around, one of the best being SourceNavigator from Redhat.
>
> Our you could do it the good old fashioned way, bash,xemacs,gdb..
>
> regards.
>
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> Matthew J Fletcher
> NPD Firmware
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