- From: Neil Stewart <nstewart@cadence.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 09:39:52 +0100
- To: Glenn Serre <gaserre@spiresoftware.com>
- CC: www-lib@w3.org
Glenn Serre wrote: > > Good morning, > > I am about to start porting (parts of) libwww to an RTOS (Pie OS). > Anyone have any hints before I get started? Can anyone point me to > examples of how to get autoconf, etc. to work in cross-compiling > enviroments? Hi Glenn, I recently ported libwww to pSOS, another RTOS. However, I didn't use autoconf or any of the existing makefiles. I found it easier to take a makefile from another pSOS project and start adding the modules a few at a time doing a compile each time to make sure it worked. Also, as pSOS had (some) non-standard include files I had to manually go through wwwconf.h and wwwsys.h adding and removing individual entries. If you wanted, you could probably go through 'configure' and try to hack that to support your dev tools, but I didn't feel that the time it would have required was worth it (I don't have any plans to use updated versions of libwww so the fact that I have "diverted" from the development path doesn't bother me). Aside from that, the only other major problem I had was working around the fact that, unlike Unix, pSOS doesn't connect console input to a socket, therefore the event loop can't be used to poll for input. If you want more info on how I got round this then let me know. Basically, if your RTOS is Unix-like then you shouldn't have any insurmountable problems getting libwww to work but if it's completely non-standard then you could have a lot of work changing function names etc.! Cheers, Neil -- Neil Stewart | Cadence Design Systems Ltd Consulting Engineer | 1 Bell Square email: nstewart@cadence.com | Brucefield Industrial Park phone/vmail: 01506 595072 | Livingston, SCOTLAND, EH54 9BY
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