LynxOS 3.0.1 Development tools
Sanjay P Prabhugaonkar
Anyone using LynxOS 3.0.1 on intel Pentium II, I have a Question on
development tools.
I would like to the pros/cons between Native, Solaris Cross development
and NT cross development (if exists) tools. I know that this Question
is very general in nature but any info will be highly appriciated!
Thanks in Advance...
Sanjay
Hiro Sugawara
>
> Hi Everyone!
>
> Anyone using LynxOS 3.0.1 on intel Pentium II, I have a Question on
> development tools.
>
> I would like to the pros/cons between Native, Solaris Cross development
> and NT cross development (if exists) tools. I know that this Question
> is very general in nature but any info will be highly appriciated!
Sanjay,
The simplest words are "it's all up to you."
The standard LynxOS devkit comes (I believe) with most popular
Unix tools, GNU compilers and debuggers, and X Window. If you
are generally comfortable with Unix environments, this will
give you the most cost-effective starting point. You can port
a number of Unix tools to LynxOS just with a matter of
configuration or you find your favorite tools already ported.
The LynxOS desktop (POSIX Desktop) environment is so
comprehensive that, as a matter of fact, many engineers here
at Lynx are using LynxOS as their workstations.
If you have invested in SunOS (Solaris) and want to share it
for other projects, you can use the same compilers and (remote
crosss) debuggers from your Sun workstation. FTP, NFS, rlogin,
..., nothing to worry about communications between your SunOS
host and LynxOS target. I myself am using SunOS for development.
If you prefer to pay Mr. Gates or your company forces to use
Windows, as found in many firms today, you are still with Lynx.
Because Lynx's Windows cross system is fairly young, it
merely started as a "Unix on Windows" emulation product, but
we are adding more "Windowism" today, such as a GUI-based
remote cross debugger and an IDE. LynxOS supports Samba and
other means to communicate with Windows.
If you have further questions, feel free to contact Lynx at
sa...@lynx.com.
hiro
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Wolfgang Denk
>Sanjay P Prabhugaonkar wrote:
...
>> I would like to the pros/cons between Native, Solaris Cross development
>> and NT cross development (if exists) tools. I know that this Question
>> is very general in nature but any info will be highly appriciated!
>The simplest words are "it's all up to you."
Correct; we are using all these methods in parallel, and it works :-)
>If you have invested in SunOS (Solaris) and want to share it
>for other projects, you can use the same compilers and (remote
>crosss) debuggers from your Sun workstation. FTP, NFS, rlogin,
>..., nothing to worry about communications between your SunOS
>host and LynxOS target. I myself am using SunOS for development.
Using SunOS can have some other advantages: especially in bigger
projects you will want to use some other tools - from Configuration
Management to CASE - that sometimes are not available for native
LynxOS, and you don't really want to go through all the Windows
problems.
Another issue is that you can have really powerful Sun servers
running your production and verification tools. This is often *much*
faster than any other solution available right now.
[We have several BIG projects running with LynxOS (in total well over
the Kilo-Man-Year line), and although it is often easy enough to
compile a driver for tests native right on the target system, we
usually do all our development under SunOS.]
>If you have further questions, feel free to contact Lynx at
>sa...@lynx.com.
I'm still waiting to see the Linux Cross Develoment Kit for LynxOS.
Wolfgang Denk
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