27 Oct
2005
27 Oct
'05
8:40 a.m.
Tim Shoppa wrote:
But in my experience, outside the hobbyist community
the
freeware embedded tools don't have much traction. I'd be glad to
be proven wrong! Actually I do know of a couple of
small commercial projects that used gcc for StrongARM and
have heard of a couple that use gcc for MSP430.
Just spend some time and look, how many of the "commercial" vendors
are actually selling just front-end (GUI !) to tools from the GNU Chain.
This is at least true for a lot of the 32-bit developement packages.
And, even the big players are selling you those for big bucks.
I myself use gputils (GNU PIC utilities) and gpsim
occasionally
and am occasionally forced to plunge into hell with commercial
embedded development tools (which mostly suck) under
Windows.
Yes, and then you notice again, how easy it actually was, to make your
compiles with make, it was portable, and easy to understand what is
happening behind the scripts.
PFUI !
;-)