Re: [ECOS] Building eCos without gcc

["David Airlie" <David dot Airlie at parthus dot com>]

I won't say this is futile but it takes a lot of work, while there is no 
doubt the ARM compiler produces better code, it doesn't support all that 
eCos needs...

you'll also have to re-write the assembler portions (inlines as well) for 
the ADS... this alone is a good reason to give up... constructor ordering 
and putting device into a section for initialisation are other things that 
aren't that easy to do ..

Dave.

On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Ashok I. wrote:

> Hi 
> 
> Currently I am trying to build eCos for ARM using ARM Developer
> Suite(ADS).
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> Initially I built eCos using gcc and I tried to use the install
> directory contents in the ADS. When I tried to link my appln ,there were
> problems because the armlinker does not recognize target.ld.
> 
> Also armlinker has no concept of defining symbols as in linker script
> for GNU ld. 
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> ARMLINKER cannot give values to symbols in target.ld (for eg _bss_start
> ) as is the case with ld.
> 
> Is it possible to build eCos sources without using target.ld? 
> 
> Also I found that all the symbols related to target.ld is needed in HAL
> package. Can we change the source in this package so that we donot have
> to use
> target.ld and still be able to build?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Ashok I
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