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
http://www.goingware.com/
cra...@go...
Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.
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