Frank Smith, of the Embedded Debian Project, writes . . .

I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first *test* release of Embedded Debian Cross Development Environments. Here are the specs:

Hosts:
– Debian i386 (potato-ish)
– RPM based i386

Targets:
– PowerPC Linux
– ARM Linux

Packages:
– Binutils 2.9.5.0.37
– GCC 2.95.2
– GlibC 2.1.3
– Based on Debian packages, with added support for cross configurations.

Capabilities:
– C development
– Useful for Linux kernel development on both Debian and RPM based hosts
– Useful for application development (in C) on Debian hosts only.

For more information and download instructions, go to

www.emdebian.org

and check out the link “Cross Development Environments” at the top of the page.

As I mentioned, this is a *test* release. Some notes:

The PowerPC cross compilers have been tested by
– Building Linux kernel 2.2.14 and running it successfully
– Building GNU hello, linked static & dynamic
– Binaries tested on a PowerPC 750

The ARM cross compilers have been tested by
– Building GNU hello, linked static & dynamic
– I do not have an ARM host so these binaries have not been tested

The version of GlibC is likely not appropriate for non-FPU processors.

I've only tried installing the .debs on a recent version of potato. I know someone who tried a slink install, but that didn't go so well. YMMV.

Roadmap:

Expanding the list of supported hosts
Expanding the list of supported programming languages
Support for non-FPU processors
User's Documentation
Much Much More

I am very interested in hearing of your experiences with this software.

Suggestions are welcome!

I am particularly interested in comments from Debian developers, especially those who have done maintainer work on the packages I've had my evil ways with :-)

Regards,
Frank ([email protected])

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