"Ben Combee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > At 06:34 PM 5/16/2004, you wrote: > >I cannot believe there is no (easily located) step-by-step guide to convert > >a standard manual bsh:make project for use in PODS. Has anybody done this? > > There's no guide, as the current version is an almost-documentation free > technical preview. We are working on documents that talk about how to > migrate projects into PODS as part of the final 1.0 release coming this > summer, but we wanted to get an early version out to developers at the > conference in February, hence the 0.1.1 release.
Got it; then at the very least, this should be clearly documented somewhere also. The only clue I got was the implication of the 0.* version number! In any case, fair enough; I'd rather have the latest stuff early than wait for complete dox. > As for bash -- the standard Cygwin install.exe will work with the > PalmOSCygwin installation, so you can use that to pull in other utilities > that weren't included with the download, including bash. It's also a good > idea to update the pilrc.exe that comes with PODS -- it's a very old > version -- the current 3.2 beta build is on sourceforge.net/projects/pilrc. Will do; perhaps we could begin putting together a list of "missing bits" and you might provide a supplementary cygwin installer. It would have anything that is generally useful or popularly used by Palm programmers which is not in the Eclipse subset. Obviously the bash shell is one thing but I am sure there are others. Until I can get it working, I really can't get the experience required to comment further! > Without seeing how you structured your makefile, I can't really recommend a > migration strategy. I will note that the build system has changed > considerably from PODS 0.1.1 to the 1.0 release, so you'll have to rebuild > any existing projects with the final tools when they are available. I really don't think you are understanding what I am saying. Let's pretend I have hello.h, hello.c and a makefile for an existing project which works fine for the original GCC compile environment (bash). How do I import those 3 files and then make PODS generate a PRC? That is my basic issue. Here is what I have done (sticking with the "hello" example): I made a new project with the "blank" makefile option (something like that) which created a directory called hello. I put my 3 files in that directory and restarted PODS. It did not recognize the files. I then attempted to import the files so that PODS would "know" about them. Couldn't do it. This doesn't have to be a Ben/Tom question; there as got to be somebody out there who has gotten this to work (you can't all have started up projects from scratch)! I assume that there is a somewhat automatic way to start a simulator/emulator session for debugging and I'm also sure there is (properly disclaimed) insufficient documentatino for this. I could use help there, too (assuming I ever get that far). -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
