GBA support and hints for other embedded platforms

[Ralf Nolden]

On Thursday 29 November 2001 18:05, you wrote:

Good news :)  The best thing is it doesn't interfere with my stuff in 
kdevelop 2 at all and I can still give my code in for the university report 
that I'm doing with the crosscompiling stuff :)

Anyway, I'm sad that I'm not quite finished yet but I hope to put everything 
into CVS by this weekend as almost bugfree. Sorry that I can't show off 
things before because, as said, this is work for a report that I have to do 
for University and I assume that I have to do this alone :P

Ralf
> 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
>
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