A little confused on whats needed to develope for the Palm Pilot
Ed Doyle
I checked out some of the SDK kits advertised...
$369 dollars for metroworks codewarrior seems a bit pricy.
Is there another C compiler for the palm pilot? What about the
libraries/includes needed.
Are there any books on writing cod for the Palm Pilot?
Thanks
Ed.
Gary Rudolph
> I checked out some of the SDK kits advertised...
> $369 dollars for metroworks codewarrior seems a bit pricy.
> Is there another C compiler for the palm pilot? What about the
> libraries/includes needed.
There is a Gnu C Compiler available to be used with the Pilot. The
libraries are freely available from the 3COM web site.. Check out
http://www.roadcoaders.com to get started.
But, personally I find the Metrowerks Compiler well worth the money. The
Metrowerks debugger is a life saver. There have been many times that
I've found the debugger handy. There is a copilot emulator/debugger
available for free, but it doesn't even come close to have the ability
of the debugger from Metrowerks. I simply use Copilot to try my software
if I don't need debugger support.
> Are there any books on writing cod for the Palm Pilot?
The tutorial availabe from the 3COM web site is enough to get you
started.
Gary
Allen Braunsdorf
Gary Rudolph <rudo...@std.teradyne.com> wrote:
>There is a Gnu C Compiler available to be used with the Pilot. The
>libraries are freely available from the 3COM web site.. Check out
>http://www.roadcoaders.com to get started.
I've got the DOS version, but DOS is not where I'd like to develop.
Can I compile it up from the regular GCC source now, or has it not been
merged into the distribution?
ab
Gary Rudolph
> I've got the DOS version, but DOS is not where I'd like to develop.
> Can I compile it up from the regular GCC source now, or has it not been
> merged into the distribution?
I'm not completely that versed in using GCC (I've been entirely using
CodeWarrior, since I decided to buy it). If you follow the links in
http://www.roadcoders.com you will eventually drill down to a win32 port
of GCC for the palmpilot. You might want to check it out at
http://www.land-j.com/gccwin32.html
Gary
A Braunsdorf
Gary Rudolph <ga...@rridge.com> wrote:
>I'm not completely that versed in using GCC (I've been entirely using
>CodeWarrior, since I decided to buy it). If you follow the links in
>http://www.roadcoders.com you will eventually drill down to a win32 port
>of GCC for the palmpilot. You might want to check it out at
>http://www.land-j.com/gccwin32.html
I meant I'd rather not use Wintel at all. What is this world coming
to? :-( If my choice is DOS or Windows, I'll take DOS because there's
a free one, but I'd still rather use UNIX.
ab
r...@nicholson.com
In article <6d7301$4...@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>, A Braunsdorf <a...@purdue.edu> wrote:
>Gary Rudolph <ga...@rridge.com> wrote:
>>). If you follow the links in
>>http://www.roadcoders.com you will eventually drill down to a win32 port
>>of GCC for the palmpilot.
>
The free wintel tools are mostly ports of *nix gcc tools. Try the
pilot-unix archives for a bunch of (mostly undocumented) tools that
seem to be sufficient to develop apps for the PalmOS(Pilot).
--
Ron Nicholson r...@nicholson.com http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/
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