Windows

Windows

To set up a development environment on Windows, there are a number of options.

Virtual PC with Linux

• Download and install VMWare Player
• Download one of the pre-build Linux VMWare appliances (i.e. Ubuntu Desktop) from the VMWare Virtual Appliances Marketplace.
• Boot the appliance in the VMWare Player
• Follow the Linux steps inside the Virtual PC.

Cygwin

Cygwin creates a *NIX-like environment on Windows.

• Download and set up Cygwin with at least the following packages:

  • binutils
  • includes
  • gcc bootstrap
  • newlib
  • dll preliminary, not thread-capable
  • CE libraries
  • gcc, g++ complete build
  • dll complete
  • additional libraries (threads support, C++ DLL)
  • gdb
  • the debugging stub

• Download the CeGCC cross-compiler for PocketPC version 0.55 tarball (54 MB) by clicking here: http://cegcc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cegcc/tags/cegcc-0.55/?view=tar.

• Start a Cygwin shell (e.g., using the Start Menu shortcut created during Cygwin setup), and go to the folder where the tarball was downloaded.

• Extract the tarball by entering the command tar -zxvf cegcc-cegcc-0.55.tar.gz.

• Then issue the following commands:

cd cegcc-0.55/src
mkdir build
cd build
 ../scripts/build-mingw32ce.sh

• Wait... The build script should eventually complete successfully, having built the cross-compiler in Cygwin's /opt/mingw32ce/ directory. Confirm that this folder exists and isn't empty.
• Exit the Cygwin shell.
• Replace the shlobj.h file with one "patched" to work for LK8000:
  • Go to https://gist.github.com/820689.
  • Click "download", and save the file. To simplify the next steps, change the (very long) file name to something brief (e.g., shlobj.tar.gz), and save it in your Cygwin directory (e.g., C:\cygwin).
  • Start a Cygwin shell, navigate (using the "cd" command) to the folder where you saved the downloaded file, and extract the file by executing this command: tar -zxvf shlobj.tar.gz.
  • Replace the shlobj.h at cygwin/opt/mingw32ce/arm-mingw32ce/include with the one just extracted.
• Add /opt/mingw32ce/bin: to the PATH setting (inserting it just after "PATH=") in the file C:\cygwin\etc\profile.
• Start the Cygwin shell again (printenv PATH should show the modified PATH).
• Modify the LK8000 Makefile to link statically against libstdc++ like so:

LDLIBS := -Wl,-Bstatic -lstdc++  -Wl,-Bdynamic -lcommctrl

• make TARGET=PNA should result in an LK8000-PNA.exe.

MinGW

• Install MinGW, make sure to install the C++ compiler and the MinGW Developer toolkit.
• Start a MinGW shell.
• Download the LK8000 sources.
• Edit the LK8000 Makefile as follows:

ifeq ($(CONFIG_PC),y)
#TCPATH		:=i386-mingw32-
TCPATH	:=

and:

ifeq ($(CONFIG_PC),y)
#LDLIBS		:= -lmingw32 -lcomctl32 -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -ladvapi32 -lwinmm -lmsimg32 -lstdc++
LDLIBS := -Wl,-Bstatic -lstdc++  -lmingw32 -lcomctl32 -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -ladvapi32 -lwinmm -lmsimg32

This last change may not required anymore. If you still need to do this change, and if you're using LiveTracker then also add -lwsock32.

• Build LK8000-PC.exe with:

make TARGET=PC

Notes:

• With this setup, it's only possible to compile the PC version of LK8000.
• The resulting executable is slightly larger (~10%) than the released version.