Eclipse

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

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

I am on a Windows box running TightVNC to access a Linux box.  I didn't
even get to using the RTEMS cross toolset.  It did manage to checkout
something from CVS and then when I clicked on a C file in that checked
out project, the VNC client died.

--joel


> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Joel Sherrill, Ph.D.             Director of Research & Development
>> joel at OARcorp.com                 On-Line Applications Research
>> Ask me about RTEMS: a free RTOS  Huntsville AL 35805
>>    Support Available             (256) 722-9985
>>
> 


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Joel Sherrill, Ph.D.             Director of Research & Development
joel at OARcorp.com                 On-Line Applications Research
Ask me about RTEMS: a free RTOS  Huntsville AL 35805
    Support Available             (256) 722-9985