is this cross development environment possible?

Hi, All,
I'm trying to configure my cross development environment as the
following combination. But I'm not sure that is it possible?

Eclipse + CDT runs on Windows platform, the cross tool chain run on
Virtual PC (or VMware), and Samba is used to share files between
Windows and Linux. The chip on target board is MIPS, and target system
can mount file system that provided by NFS on the Virtual PC.
Can I compile and debug on the Eclipse? If it is possible, could you
give me some suggestion to configure the eclipse?

As I need run some other tools on Windows, so i'd like to run Eclipse
on Windows not to run on Virtual PC to
avoid some misc.

Best regards,

Tony

sunnyboyGuo@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi, All, I'm trying to configure my cross development environment as
> the following combination. But I'm not sure that is it possible?
> 
> Eclipse + CDT runs on Windows platform, the cross tool chain run on 
> Virtual PC (or VMware), and Samba is used to share files between 
> Windows and Linux. The chip on target board is MIPS, and target
> system can mount file system that provided by NFS on the Virtual PC. 
> Can I compile and debug on the Eclipse? If it is possible, could you 
> give me some suggestion to configure the eclipse?
> 
> As I need run some other tools on Windows, so i'd like to run Eclipse
>  on Windows not to run on Virtual PC to avoid some misc.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Tony
> 

Yes, this is possible.  However, it should be perfectly possible to run
your toolchain directly under windows rather than in a virtual PC.  For
debugging, this would certainly be easier (though it is possible to use
Eclipse on one PC as the front end, gdb on another (virtual) pc, and the
hardware interface backend on yet another).  It is also possible to
install an nfs server on windows (it's part of cygwin).  The only issue
is that if your target is running linux, it might be easier to build the
system under linux.

As an altnerative to running linux under VMWare, look at colinux for a
"lighter" solution.