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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: beginner in arm boards
From: Jim Jackson <>
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 17:50:41 +0000 (GMT)


On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Blair wrote:

> You need a bunch of things before you can begin working.  You need a 
> cross toolchain.  Sounds simple and should be something you "just 
> install".  Nope.  You first need to decide what desktop environment you 
> want to work in: Windows, Mac OSX, or Linux.  Each has its pros and cons. 
> I've used OSX fairly well but only because some generous soul posted 
> procedures for building a toolchain.  But even building a toolchain is a 
> challenge because the make system for it requires a bunch of utilities 
> that may or may not be present on your system.  And even if you have 
> these, the versions of the utilities may not be recent enough and you 
> wind up with errors during building.  And every part of the toolchain 
> itself has numerous versions.  Not much in the way of documentation on 
> what versions to use.

That's odd, because I just downloaded the pre-compiled tool chain from TS
onto my Linux box and I could compile hello world for my board, and start 
my software development.

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