[ZooLib-dev] I'm getting a Netwinder

[Michael D. C. <cra...@go...>]

I'm going to buy a used Corel Netwinder from a guy I met on the debian-arm 
mailing list.

You can buy them new from http://www.netwinder.net/  Netwinders are these tiny 
little Linux servers.  The older ones like I'm getting and the 2100's they still 
sell at netwinder.net are based on ARM microprocessors.  Mine will be a 275 Mhz 
StrongARM.

I'm getting this specifically so I can learn ARM assembly code.  I've been 
fortunate to get a contract I will start soon doing some embedded programming on 
an I/O chip that has an onboard ARM microprocessor.  I have spent a lot of time 
in my career debugging C and even some C++ by looking at disassembled machine 
code (particularly with MacsBug).

So what this is all about is that I can do a ZooLib port to gcc/Linux/ARM.

I don't think it will be very difficult.

I never did get ZooLib to run correctly with Cygwin's gcc on Windows.  I could 
get it to build and even display a window with some widgets but it would always 
crash.  But I think I know what I need to do.  I think the gcc that is provided 
by default with cygwin is built with options that don't support what I need 
(like OLE) so what I will do is use the gcc distributed by the MingW folks which 
apparently should work.  http://www.mingw.org/ . I'll be giving that a try at 
some point too.
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Michael D. Crawford
GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
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      Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.