[Balloon] Re: Development Environment

+++ Glen VanMilligan [04-10-22 10:48 -0500]:

> Hi, I can't seem to find what you are using for the development
> environment? I see that you are promoting Debian.

Not so much promoting as just using (but yes I do think it's great and use it
everywhere, arm and x86)

> Can someone explain the development procedure?

Different people use different variants.

I use the Embedded Debian cross-toolchain, or sometimes other
cross-toolchinas (handhelds.org, armlinux.co.uk), nd the (fledgling) embedded
Debian tools. But I wouldn't recommend the latter to anyone unless you
mostly wanted to develeop emdebian rather than your target ap at the moment.

I also use Open Ebedded as a rather more mature embedded-system-producing
tool.

Nick uses debian-arm native tools running on the balloon itself with an
NFS_mounted filesystem so he can build eveything natively and have a dev
environment on the board just like on his desktop (except slower). He uses
the familiar/handhelds.org build stuff.

Sometime soon I hope to get round to supporting balloon as a standard target
for Debian so you can install a standard CD onto it.

You can use any build environment you like to target Balloon - at least one
person has even used Cygwin successfully.

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