GBA support and hints for other embedded platforms

[Ralf Nolden]

On Friday 30 November 2001 22:59, you wrote:

What ? the crosscompiling stuff is going into KDevelop 2 in the branch. I 
took it as it is the production version we ship and the crosscompiling is 
very important to the embedded users *now*, plus that I have to do a 
presentation of my stuff to the professor. I won't do that with a 
half-working gideon though :) so I preferred KDevelop2 for my work.

Ralf

> Ralf,
> is this targeted at KDdevelop-2 or gideon?
>
> Roland
>
> --- Ralf Nolden <nolden at kde.org> wrote:
> > 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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