GBA support and hints for other embedded platforms

[Sandy Meier]

Hi!

Today I have added Gameboy Advance support to Gideon including a "hello 
world" template and an emulator frontend. 
As this a something like an embedded system and as I know Ralf and maybe some 
others will add support for other platforms I want to share my experience. :-)

First compiling:
This is very easy as the current AutoMake plugin already allows to set the 
crosscompiler and some configure options, like the "host" system.

In the default generated projectfile for GBA look like this:
<compiler>
   <ccompilerbinary>arm-agb-elf-gcc</ccompilerbinary>
   <cxxcompilerbinary>arm-agb-elf-g++</cxxcompilerbinary>
   <cflags/>
   <cxxflags/>
</compiler>
<configure>
   <configargs>--host=arm-gcc-elf --build=i386</configargs>
   <builddir/>
</configure>

But you can change it in the project options. Thanks to Bernd. :-) 

After this compiling and building works very well.  Maybe you have to add 
"objcopy" or something else to the default Makefile.am for converting 
different binary formats (linux-elf -> arm-agb-elf) ...

Now running:
Often you need an emulator if you want to test your program but don't want to 
upload it to your Palm or something else every time.
For this we can't use the default "execute/run options" from the automake 
plugin. To implement your own version you can add 
---
<kdevautoproject>
  <run>
   <default_implementation>no</default_implementation>
  </run>
</kdevautoproject>
---
to the projectfile.

With this configuration the AutoMake plugin doesn't insert the menuentry 
"execute program" 
and doesn't show the "Run Options" in the project configuration anymore.

Now you can implement these features with your own KDevelop plugin.:-)
Please look at ftp://ftp.kdevelop.org/stud/smeier/runconf.png for the GBA 
solution.

Thanks for your attention.

Ciao!
Sandy