Porting windows application in vxworks

[shp...@gmail.com]

Hi all,

I have a Windows application project that is written as per WIN32 APIs that ultimately provides a DLL for the user.

I am planning to port it to Vxworks but I have used Vxworks 10 yrs ago. I have 3 queries regarding this as below.

1.My goal is to port the application into Vxworks replacing the Win32 calls and spawning a task.

2.What environment and toolchain set up is required to build this application in Vxworks.

Does Cygwin Bash tool support this make and build as also the gnumake ? Assuming I don't have any tornado or WRS installed and don't want to buy it at present

3. how will this application be packaged in form of a library( similar to a DLL) that I can provided to user to include/add this library into his device firmware build.


Thanks in advance,

[Vikash Jain]

You would need vxWorks installation in order to build vxWorks image. WRS supports both windows and linux installation now. So you can use cygwin or ubuntu. It supports GNU make and has support for GCC and diab compilers. Toolchain is provided by WRS only. Application can be packages as a library same as linux (for eg. libxxx.a).

[shp...@gmail.com]

[shp...@gmail.com]

> > You would need vxWorks installation in order to build vxWorks image. WRS supports both windows and linux installation now. So you can use cygwin or ubuntu. It supports GNU make and has support for GCC and diab compilers. Toolchain is provided by WRS only. Application can be packages as a library same as linux (for eg. libxxx.a).

If I understand it rightly, I need the GNU make and build utility that is provided by a Vxworks installation comes for a target specific version like for PPC and so on ..

so to get this toolchain, I need to buy Vxworks tornado IDE? Am I correct?

[Vikash Jain]

Yes your understanding is correct, you can also try below I haven't tried this but this might work also.

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/81D1172E3C28A5E4862575CC0076A230