Eclipse

[Kit Plummer]

Ok, curiosity killed the cat.  What OS are you using that you can't run 
Eclipse natively?  RTEMS?  Or, are you just remote?

Kit

On Oct 13, 2004, at 12:18 PM, Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp.com> wrote:

> Steve Holle wrote:
>> Thanks for the info.  I don't have any questions for the moment but I 
>> will keep your email for when we start bring up Eclipse.
>
> I would appreciate it very much if one of you could add
> a Wiki entry for Eclipse and RTEMS info.
>
> I tried Eclipse 3.0.1 today only to learn that it crashes VNC.
> It looks to be a known problem and hopefully is going away
> in the next release series.  I spend most of my time on a
> VNC connection so it isn't ready for me yet. :(
>
> --joel
>
>
>> Thanks.
>> At 11:09 AM 10/13/2004, Mark VanderVoord wrote:
>>> Steve:
>>>
>>> I have a configuration similar to what you describe,
>>> but not exact.  I am using Eclipse with CDT as a cross
>>> development platform for RTEMS.  In the past I had
>>> (briefly) tried to use MinGW as my cross-compilation
>>> tools.  I was not very successful with that.  Instead,
>>> I am running cygwin to run the cross platform tools.
>>>
>>> Very little is required to change the behavior of CDT
>>> to support cross development.  You will need to
>>> retarget the make and gdb calls to point at your
>>> platform-specific tools, instead of the default ones
>>> that are packaged with CDT.  This can be done through
>>> the "make targets" pane and the debug drop down menu.
>>>
>>> I am currently running Eclipse 2.1 and CDT 1.2.  There
>>> are much newer versions of each, but I haven't had
>>> time to update them recently.
>>>
>>> Because Eclipse references any standard GDB
>>> implementation with the machine interface, it can be
>>> used in place of Insight to directly debug your code.
>>> I have had varying luck on this, as the machine
>>> interface seems to be lacking or buggy, depending on
>>> which cross compiler tool I am working with.  Other
>>> targets have worked beautifully.  At worst, it is easy
>>> to configure Eclipse to launch Insight when needed.
>>>
>>> Anything else you would like to know about this?
>>>
>>> Mark S VanderVoord
>>> Self-Guided Systems, LLC
>>>
>>> --- Steve Holle <sholle at link-comm.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I'm interested in info on using Eclipse with the CDT
>>> > plugin as a
>>> > cross-development platform on a W2K system using
>>> > MinGW and GDB connected to
>>> > the Eclipse debugger.  This seems like an intriguing
>>> > configuration.  Just
>>> > doing research at the moment.
>>> >
>>> > Steve Holle
>>> > Link Communications, Inc.
>>> > 1035 Cerise Rd.
>>> > Billings, MT  59101
>>> > sholle at link-comm.com
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Steve Holle
>> Link Communications, Inc.
>> 1035 Cerise Rd.
>> Billings, MT  59101
>> sholle at link-comm.com
>
>
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