[kaffe] Win CE port

[Philippe Laporte]

Hi,
Should I understand that

pocketgcc

does not provide pthreads?

Where would I get it if I needed it for Win CE?

Thanks,

Philippe Laporte
Software 

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Dalibor Topic wrote:

>On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:31:43AM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>    Thanks for your answer.
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>>I'm usually a Unix guy wondering around the embedded Windows world.
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>Salut Philippe,
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>>Dalibor Topic wrote:
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>>>Philippe Laporte wrote:
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>>>>Hi,
>>>>  Has anyone got some WinCE porting experiences to share?
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>>>Salut Philippe, Hallo Rainer,
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>>>Personally, I've got Kaffe's CVS HEAD from a few weeks ago to build 
>>>and run under Cygwin, though I had some problems in the interpreter 
>>>when I worked on it a few weeks ago. See FAQ.Win32 in CVS head for 
>>>details how to configure it and to get it build.
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>>Why does cygwin say they don't work on CE? Is there a branch soomewhere?
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>Oh, I am sorry for the misunderstanding, there is no Cygwin/CE that I am
>aware of, I was using Cygwin on win32. 
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>I believe that Rainer's got Win32/NT binaries of KaffeCE on his site,
>though, too, so my assumption is that Win32 is not very far away from
>WinCE in terms of behaviour or APIs necessary to port Kaffe. i.e. if you
>can get Kaffe working fine on Cygwin and on Mingw32, it should not be
>very hard to get it working fine on WinCE, then, either.
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>>Is there a bigger picture than POSIX/ANSI C dependencies being layered 
>>on CE vs Win 32?
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>Debian's pocketgcc for arm-wince-pe comes with newlib, which provides a
>posixy libc for embedded platforms, afaik. You can get the package in
>debian with apt-get install pocketgcc, I assume, and more information on
>it is available from
>http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/pocketpc-gcc. You can find
>information on newlib on sources.redhat.com/newlib . Note that the above
>toolchain is for windows CE devices using an ARM processor, if your
>target device uses something else, you'll have to port the toolchain, or
>find another one.
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>If you are interested in a command line JVM, that should be enough to
>get you started, since Kaffe allows you to use its own portable
>threading, jthreads on systems without pthreads. If you need graphical
>output, you'll need to port additional support libraries too, 
>like X11, Gtk+ or Qt4, or to look at the Windows CE AWT backend in
>Mysaify VM.
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>cheers,
>dalibor topic
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>>>>The link at http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/wince/kaffe.html, I'm not 
>>>>sure how good it is. CElib does not appear to be supported much...
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>>>I've CC:ed Rainer, he may be able to say more about its current status.
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>>>>What library did you use to achieve POSIX compatibility? What toolchain?
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>>>I've loooked around on the web a bit, and there is a pocketgcc 
>>>toolchain that uses newlib in Debian. [1] It's fro arm-wince-pe, 
>>>though, so you'd have to find another one if you have a MIPS or SuperH 
>>>device.
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>>Can you give the link, please?
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>>Any other links to start with? I wouldn't imagine this to be so 
>>mysterious, or?
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>>Thanks a lot,
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>>Philippe Laporte
>>Software 
>>
>>Gatespace Telematics
>>F?rsta L?nggatan 18
>>41328 G?teborg
>>Sweden
>>Phone: +46 702 04 35 11
>>Fax:   +46 31 24 16 50
>>Email: philippe.laporte at gatespacetelematics.com
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