On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Odd Arild Olsen <> wrote:
On Thursday 4. February 2010 08.35.32 Andrew Gaylard wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Derek <derek%40embeddedarm.com> wrote:
> > Just wondering if there would be any interest in a TS virtual machine
> > development environment. I have taken my personal time at home to work on
> > a VirtualBox image that features some common commands, examples, and
> > development packages for a free and easy, quick-start development
> > solution. I believe it would be a valuable resource to those without a
> > development Linux box or to those who would simply rather work from a
> > virtual machine. The idea of putting together a VirtualBox image came
> > from many tech support calls and emails I took the common ideas/questions
> > the customers had and put them together in this virtual machine.
> > Ideas/questions such as:
> > "How do I image the SD card from Windows if Windows doesn't have the 'dd'
> > command?"
> > "How can I cross-compile a c program?"
> > "How can I cross-compile a kernel?"
> > "How can I develop a GTK+ GUI application?"
> > "What about a generic Linux command cheat sheet?"
> > [snip]
> > What do you think? Good idea? Bad idea? Weaknesses? Strengths?
>
> Yeah, this is a pretty good idea. I won't be using it, however, since I've
> now
> rolled my own environment, with scripts to build the cross-compiler et al.
> But if it'd been available at the start, it'd have made my life quite a bit
> easier.
>
> Actually, now that I think about it... what I'd *really* like is:
What about buildroot, http://buildroot.uclibc.org/
Fullfills a-f and possibly g
Correct. And http://ptxdist.org/ is another one, which I've used before.
With TS's "approved and supported" build profile, we'd be all set.
- Andrew
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