Re: starting embedded linux debugging

From: Geronimo W. Christ Esq (thegreatsuprendo_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/22/05

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    Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:36:26 +0000

    josimda wrote:

    > Half a year ago I also started my first embedded linux project. I asked
    > some suppliers of hardware and software of our company if it's
    > advisable to use Cygwin . The most said: "You will not be able to
    > compile the kernel, because Cygwin can't handle that long path names."

    They're not talking a lot of sense then. I have the kernel compiling
    perfectly easily under Cygwin.

    > or "Most of our customers have problems with that tftp server under
    > windows, it doesn't work".

    TFTPD32 on Windows works perfectly : http://tftpd32.jounin.net/

    > So i didn't try it as a development environment. One problem you will
    > have under Windows is, that if someone sends you a tarzipped archive
    > with source code and you decompress it under windows, it will overwrite
    > some files, because the file system is not case sensitive. It's a small
    > problem, but if more small problems ... bla bla you know.

    If you have to work a lot on both UNIX-like systems as well as Windows,
    Cygwin is possibly a useful compromise. VMWare would definitely be
    preferable, however.

    > The company I work for doesn't allow you to install a Linux system and
    > connect it to the network. So i decided to buy a couble of VMWare
    > licenses and every devolper installed VMWare on his computer. Everybody
    > had Debian under VMWare running. Then I had to install some packages on
    > my machine and had some programs and testcode here and there, and every
    > devolper had his own isolated system with different packages and tools
    > installed. Very bad solution, and it was also soooo slow to compile
    > under VMWare.

    That isn't my experience; VMWare is almost as quick as the host machine.

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