Getting started - what & where to download?

[Joel Sherrill]

Angelo Fraietta wrote:
> 
> I would seriously recommend using the pre built RPMs if Mandrake will let you
> install them

If there is a problem with Mandrake and the RPMs, please report it.

--joel
 
> 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 snapshots, the 4.5.0 release is realy quite out of date now.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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