Actually, I'm not even sure there is a cross toolchain / compiler for the
PRU's. Honestly I never looked into that. But if you mean for the Linux
side of things there are multiple options. Those that I mentioned above-
And I believe Linaro has a Windows gcc port. I've set that up myself a
couple years ago as a proof of concept. But never perused it passed
compiling your basic hello world executable.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:11 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:

> *Ok, I use Eclipse with the gnu arm toolchain. For crosscompiling I'll use
>> cross GCC.*
>> * For my C/C++ project I will need to control the ADC sampling vusig the
>> PRUs, so right now I'm still trying to understand how PRUs can be
>> programmed and used using the example in libpruio called 1.c*
>
>
> Ok. So as far as I know there is no Windows cross toolchain for the PRU.
>
> You *might* be able to use the Linux compiler on Windows using cygwin -
> But surely that would be asking for trouble on multiple levels. However,
> even if it were possible, you may as well use Linux anyhow. Your options:
>
>
>    - Use Linux on dedicated hardware.
>    - Use Linux on virtualized hardware ( virtual machine ).
>    - Attempt to use cygwin on Windows.
>
> Personally, I use both dedicated hardware, and virtualized hardware. Both
> have their attractions. In fact, right now I'm using both, but developing
> software on an i386 debian virtual machine. Simply because compiling on an
> i386 Debian virtual machine is faster, and more convenient  than dedicated
> hardware - for the moment.
>
> I still write my code in an editor running in Windows 8.1, and I use samba
> - So I can treat the files I work with as local files. Except they're not
> local, they're remote :)
>
>
> Anyway - No doubt this has created more questions than it answered ?
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Valeria M. <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Ok, I use Eclipse with the gnu arm toolchain. For crosscompiling I'll use
>> cross GCC.
>> For my C/C++ project I will need to control the ADC sampling vusig the
>> PRUs, so right now I'm still trying to understand how PRUs can be
>> programmed and used using the example in libpruio called 1.c
>>
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