confused about the rtems tool chain for windows.

[Tom Smith]

hi all

the hello world example compiles successfully.

thanks

tom

2013/2/18 Matthew J Fletcher <amimjf at gmail.com>

> Tom,
>
> I had this problem just a few hours ago. The zero byte files are WinZip or
> 7zip not extracting from the tar archive correctly.
>
> I extracted the outer archive first then the tar and it was ok with 7zip.
> Its not a tool chain issue.
>  On 18 Feb 2013 12:02, "Tom Smith" <venture.g at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> hi, all
>>
>> I am now confused about the rtems tool chain for windows.
>>
>> I read the wiki  *MinGW Tools for Windows*
>> "http://wiki.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/MinGW_Tools_for_Windows"
>> and realised that the rtems tool chain for windows does not depend MinGW
>> and MSYS.
>>
>> So  I downloaded the tool chain of arm for MinGW from the following
>> address
>> http://www.rtems.org/ftp/pub/rtems/mingw32/4.11/
>>
>> Then I extracted the bz2 files using 7z and set PATH in CLI under windows
>> following the instructions found in the above wiki page.
>>
>> Finally, when I tried to compile a helloworld example c file, the tool
>> chian failed with the following complaint
>> "*arm-rtemseabi4.11-gcc.exe: error: CreateProcess: No such file or
>> directory*". By adding the `-v' option, I found the reason is that `as'
>> program(\opt\rtems-4.11\arm-rtemseabi4.11\bin) is an empty file.
>>
>> Note that I did not install MinGW and MSYS ,  and no rtems bsp had been
>> installed on that computer.
>>
>> I did the above steps again under mingw32, and got the same result.
>>
>> So is the tool chain broken ?  Any sugguestion will be appreciated.
>>  thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>> tom
>>
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