Cygwin Documentation

[Brian Rose]

I'm new to RTEMS and I'm looking to mess around with it a bit. I plan on
using a Cygwin host and a spare PC for an i386 target. The documentation
listed seems to be a bit dated and I would like to see if I can fill in the
gaps here. When I am done, I plan on writing a complete Windows user's
guide to RTEMS.

1) When you download and install Cygwin, you need to get the following
packages (in addition to the default base)...
devel/binutils
devel/gcc
devel/make
devel/patch
interpreters/perl

If you do not do this, make is not installed by default, there is no tool
to apply the RTEMS patches, and PERL is needed because the tools require a
pod2man script, which is inculded with PERL.

2) The version of GDB supported by RTEMS (5.2.0) is not available anymore
on the GNU ftp site. 5.2.1 is there, but I am not sure if the patch should
be applied. Can someone verify this?


I am able to successfully build the tools and get them working. However
when I build RTEMS I get the following error in the <builddir>/i386/c
directory...

configure: error: no acceptable cc found in $PATH

Now I linked /bin/cc to /bin/gcc as documented in the instructions. How do
I determine if a gcc is "acceptable"? Is it because the --target=xxx is
incorrect for my cc? I'm guessing that I need to point the /bin/cc to my
cross-compiler. Is this correct?

Thanks in advance..


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Brian