You can use other compilers also for generating the srec file ,
one drawback i saw for the GCC compiler is Iam unable to use the
Interrupts and interrupt handlers in stand alone application.
Regards,
kishore
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Wolfgang Denk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear "Piyush Shah",
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> you wrote:
> >
> > I have to write some standalone applications to be run from U-boot. My
> > questions are:
> > 1) Can we include only those header files which are a part of the U-boot
> > code? What needs to be done to use files from the /usr/include/ folder?
>
> You can do anything you want, but you have to keep two thingsin mind:
>
> 1) The GPL license exception for standalone programs is pretty
> specific. If you deviate, your resulting code will most likely
> have to be released under GPL.
>
> 2) U-Boot provides only a very simple, restricted runtime environ-
> ment. Any additional stull you include may require additional
> libraries, which may rely on operating system features, or C
> runtime features, that are not present in U-Boot context.
>
> > 2) Does the code for the standalone application be always present in the
> > examples/ folder?
>
> No. These are just examples.
>
> > 3) Can't we write our own Makefile which will create a .bin and .srec
> file
> > from a simple C-Program and work from U-boot, instead of compiling entire
> > U-boot?
>
> Yes, of course you can.
>
> > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> > Content-Disposition: inline
>
> Please stop posting hTML. This is strictly forbidden on this mailing
> list.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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