Hi Nate, I wasn't aware the Windows version was still on x86, but I'm not terribly surprised. It might look trivial from the outside looking in, but MS charges a fortune for their dev tools. So maybe Elecraft isn't going to spring for the X64/amd64 cross-compilers and libs until x86 emulation finally drops off all the old Windows variants. And there may be portability issues that would require extra work that we don't know about too.
Not quite like gcc-based toolchains where you can find a backend for almost any processor out there and it's free too.... Still looks like the Rasperry Pi is an interesting device... 73, LS W5QD Nate Bargmann wrote > * On 2016 07 Apr 11:19 -0500, lstavenhagen wrote: >> Maybe after it settles down a bit more Elecraft might look at supporting >> it? >> I wish I had the spare brain cycles to play with one of these, looks like >> a >> lot of bang/buck.... > > At this time not even amd64 builds of the Elecraft tools have been made > available so I run them in a i386 VirtualBox instance of Debian Jessie > on the odd occasion I need to use them. > >> Do the linux distros for it come with the dev. toolchains like GCC in >> them >> (I would imagine it's now matured past having to cross-compile binaries >> for >> it on PCs) ? > > They're not usually installed by default but are available via the > package manager of choice (in my case that is Aptitude). As I recall > the build-essentials package is a meta package that includes most common > build tools as dependencies. > >> How's the Python support? > > The Pi Foundation has made sure that the Python support is very good. > > 73, Nate > > -- > > "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all > possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." > > Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto: > Elecraft@.qth > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to > lists+1215531472858-365791@.nabble -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/KX3-PX3-Linux-Utilities-for-Raspberry-Pi-tp7616014p7616033.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
