Dear list members, I apologise for the lenghty introduction, please bear with me until the end.
Recently I am exploring various options for developing a company-internal application for a mobile hand-held data terminal, that will act as a very limited mobile workstation for the Road-Warrior employees. These will connect with an in-house developed server. I found out, that finding a good open Java solution is practically unfindable, which is bad, since our team is entirely Java oriented, as is the back-end server. I also evaluated Python-CE (http://pythonce.sourceforge.net/), which seemed to be a good candidate. However a number of incompatibilities with our devices left that in an undecidable state. I also found out, that 'Embedded Visual C++' was able to produce executables for the particular hardware we are expected to use. The hardware manufacturer actually provides a 'profile' for the device. I decided to evaluate cegcc too. I am using Ubuntu for testing, downloaded the mandriva-cegcc-cegcc-0.51.0.tar.gz, extracted it, added the path entries. I was able to successfully compile the fibo example (also got the mentioned warning). The result however was surprising. The executables were different (quite) from the ones provided for comparison. Secondly neither these, nor the demonstrative ones could be run on the device. Well... To be honest I can see, that the sources in the page and the attached fibo.c are different in the first place. Also I failed to copy the appropriate DLLs to the device. There was also a problem with the fact, that I did not have a memory card in the device, and there was no 'Compact Flash' device, and I could not create a directory with that name. However! Even after I copied the 3 DLLs: cegcc.dll, cegccthrd.dll and libstdc++.dll the executables could not run. The actual error: > Fatal Application Error > Application f.exe has > performed an illegal > operation and will be shut > down. If the problem > persists contact the > program vendor. > > Program: f.exe > Exception: 0xC0000005 > Address: 013AE6B0 The same message (apart from the file name) happens with fibo.exe, f_.exe (compiled by me), fibo_.exe (compiled by me). Even the exception number and the address are the same. The ones I compiled successfully create a file named fibo.txt in \Temp, but still crash. *Hardware*: > Mobile Compia (now M3 Mobile) M3 Green > Intel ARM920T-PXA27x > Microsoft(R) Windows(R) CE Version 5.00 > http://www.m3mobile.co.kr/en/product/m3green.php I am pretty new at Windows CE, and I feel seriously frustrated. I am a seasoned Java developer, but Java is seriously under-supported on this device. Hoping for a brief moment of success at last... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Cegcc-devel mailing list Cegcc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cegcc-devel
