native gcc for vxworks

[Mike Stump]

On Dec 7, 2004, at 5:00 PM, Robert Dewar wrote:
> Mike Stump wrote:
>
>> On Dec 6, 2004, at 10:52 PM, Robert Dewar wrote:
>>
>>> I trust the small here is meant with a sense of irony, since this 
>>> would
>>> in practice be many person years of work I would guess.
>>>
>> No, it isn't that hard, probably take a few weeks.
>> cygwin is a lot of work, not because of gcc, but because of the 1000s 
>> of other software packages it compiles.
>>
>
> Well you are far more optimistic than I would be. After all even 
> getting
> VxWorks to be posix compatible is a major amount of work. Gteting a 
> full
> unix environment seems much harder to me.

A hosted gcc doesn't require a full unix environment.  The difference 
is the difference between making gcc and binutils work, versus making 
those work, plus /bin/sh and perl and awk and insert 400 other nice 
host programs here.

I've seen gcc hosted on an MSDOS box treated as a target board.