hello there, I know this mailing list is about developing cegcc, while my questions are more about *using* cegcc, but I'll try anyway :-)
basically, I'm trying to find a way to "smooth out" the process of porting an application that already have a Configure-type script (the kind of script which gathers configuration variables by probing headers and running small test executables to determine features). I understand that, if said application - and its Configure script - doesn't already support cross-compilation, things are going to get really hard. what I'm trying to compile right now is, in fact, Parrot (http://www.parrotcode.org) which, at least, has a Configure script written in perl. it doesn't support cross-compilation out of the box, but the build system seems more "pluggable" than a plain bash script. I already played with it a little, using a cygwin environment to build it (just faking most of the answers to the Configure script, and then fixing things by hand). a small report of what I've done, if you are interested, is at: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/36281 what I've done so far looks promising (well, to me). but to go further, I really need to find a way to: - build an executable on the desktop pc using cegcc (that's simple) - upload the executable to the pda (that's simple enough too) - launch the executable on the pda (that's doable via RAPI) - fetch the stdout/stderr of the executable back on the desktop pc the last point is what I'm concerned about. I tried using a simple stub executable which redirects stdout with something like: freopen("\\Temp\\stdout.txt", "w", stdout); and then does execvp of the argument passed on the command line. unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work with cegcc. the same stub, compiled with gcc, works fine on the desktop pc. so my question is: has anybody already thought of something like that? am I on the right path or am I missing something obvious? do you have some hint to give me, or am I going to be warnocked as I've been on the parrot mailing list? :-) cheers, Aldo ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Cegcc-devel mailing list Cegcc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cegcc-devel
