Hi, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i've just had a request from a colleague who wants to do all the >cross-compilation for our 8xx board on a windows box, rather than >linux. > > there was talk of cygwin, and kdevelop as well. i'm still parsing >the rest of the email but is there a canonical URL that discusses >working in the windows environment? > > We use colinux (http://www.colinux.org) for that. It's a Linux kernel that runs as application under windows. It shares networking with the windows system so you can operate it via telnet or ssh. You can even run IDEs like kdevelop as remote X application and use the cygwin's X window system to use the Linux apps under windows. Before that, we used VMware, but coLinux is free and IMO, it has better performance because it doesn't have to simulate a whole computer (but only a small hardware abstraction layer). It comes with a pre-patched Debian image which gives you a minimal Linux installation. From there you set up the networking, and simply apt-get install your apps like you would do with a native Linux box. HTH, Patrick
