PPC eval board

On 1 Jul 2005 13:24:21 -0700, Tom St Denis wrote:

>
>
>Mat Nieuwenhoven wrote:
>> Although it isn't advertised, the OpenWatcom development version has some
>> very limited PPC support: assembler (called wasppc), C compiler ( wccppc) and
>> compile/link (wclppc), plus the capability to do remote debugging (don't know
>> off-hand which links are supported for that). You can cross compiler from
>> OS/2 and Win32, some tools are available from DOS as well. No C libraries as
>> yet I think but if you're doing assembler you won't need them. You'll need
>> the latest daily sources and build the lot (about 5 hours on a 400 MHz
>> machine), but you only need to do this once. If you need more info go to the
>> user group at news.openwatcom.org.
>
>Thanks for the reply but it's totally not what I was looking for.  I
>only run Linux and I need GCC since the library I'm working on builds
>with GCC only [but on a variety of platforms.  Personally I don't care
>for proprietary compilers].

Understood, but your initial post didn't mention Linux, just GCC. OpenWatcom
isn't proprietary, it's open source (was made open source 4 years ago or so).
It runs on Dos, OS/2, Win32 and Linux (not all tools yet, no graphical ones),
and produces code (can cross-compile) for all those as well (Linux no
multithreading or graphical stuff). Its debugger is way ahead of gdb. As
Watcom's Linux-hosted ppc tool I only see the ppc assembler, probably linker
works as well; but if you need to have a gcc lib it's not gonna work.
Anyway, good luck with your project, I'm using PICs myself (privately).

Mat Nieuwenhoven

Tom St Denis wrote:
> 
> Mat Nieuwenhoven wrote:
> 
>>Although it isn't advertised, the OpenWatcom development version has some
>>very limited PPC support: assembler (called wasppc), C compiler ( wccppc) and
>>compile/link (wclppc), plus the capability to do remote debugging (don't know
>>off-hand which links are supported for that). You can cross compiler from
>>OS/2 and Win32, some tools are available from DOS as well. No C libraries as
>>yet I think but if you're doing assembler you won't need them. You'll need
>>the latest daily sources and build the lot (about 5 hours on a 400 MHz
>>machine), but you only need to do this once. If you need more info go to the
>>user group at news.openwatcom.org.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the reply but it's totally not what I was looking for.  I
> only run Linux and I need GCC since the library I'm working on builds
> with GCC only [but on a variety of platforms.  Personally I don't care
> for proprietary compilers].
> 
> The funny thing is all I need is actually fairly trivial compared to
> what the average eval board is... seems nobody just makes "simple"
> boards anymore...
> 

Get a Mac Mini with OS X v10.4 Tiger. You'll get a full GNU
toolset with the O/S.

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