Re: [ECOS] Building eCos for Synthetic Target on Cygwin

[Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>]

> Oh well... I naively thought that you could just run gdb on Cygwin and
> run the eCOS kernel and applications on top of that.
> If I understand well, one thing I ought to do is to get an old i386
> box and use Redboot to download applications onto it. Then I can use
> gdb on Cygwin to do some debugging through the serial cable.

Not with the synthetic target. You can do that with some of the other
targets, but the IO is a bit limited. 

You might also want to look into using the Bochs virtual x86. Some
users have used that to run eCos compiled for i386 on M$ systems.

      Andrew

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