[coldfire-gnu-discuss] Compiling Freescale MQX with GCC

[Maxim Kuvyrkov]

On 2/11/10 1:08 PM, Shaun James wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am considering moving to linux based tools from Codewarrior.  Has anyone had any experience compiling the complimentary MQX RTOS and communications stacks with the GNU tools?

Shaun,

Building MQX with GNU tools is quite complicated, it requires 
non-trivial changes to the MQX source code.  Using the MQX libraries 
built with CodeWarrior is not an option either as CodeWarrior uses a 
different ABI from GCC.  There are also various incompatibilities 
between the binaries built with CodeWarrior and the GNU linker.  All and 
all, it is hard.

Nevertheless, we at CodeSourcery are actively working on adding MQX 
support to our commercial SourceryG++ tools, and, possibly as soon as 
this Spring, we will be releasing it to our customers.

Regards,

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Maxim Kuvyrkov
CodeSourcery
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