Doug Abbott: Embedded Linux development using Eclipse

The complete kit includes:

• Single board computer

• Power supply

• Serial and Ethernet crossover cables

• Pre-installed Linux kernel and U-Boot boot loader

• CD with support software:

○ Cross-development tools

○ Kernel source

○ Eclipse IDE

○ Tutorial code samples

• User’s guide

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The membership categories were modified somewhat in July of 2008. For details of the new membership categories, see the following page at the Eclipse Web site: www.eclipse.org/membership/become_a_member/membershipTypes.php.

Personally, I think that should be the default.

I find it a little odd that Eclipse can’t automatically insert the sort library here, since it apparently figured out that sort is a library project.

http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_support_refactoring_for_my_own_language?www.newnespress.com

This is the location of the nfs script on a Red Hat or Fedora distribution. Other distributions may locate it somewhere else.

You can also manipulate this preference by clicking the View Menuicon in the Remote Systems view.

Regardless of where you chose to build the package, the MWT runtimes get installed in /usr/localby default.

OSGi originally stood for Open Services Gateway initiative. At some point that term was dropped, and now the organization and its specifications are simply referred to as OSGi.

This particular example comes from a paper describing the embedded Rich Client Platform posted at IBM’s Developer Works, at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecl-rcp/. Check it out.

Version 2.0 was released by the Object Management Group (OMG) in 2003.

Be aware, of course, that the file name may change.

The example was derived from this web page: http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/network/1582/uml-example.htm/.

I encountered an error at this point: “Errors saving CVS synchronization information to disk.” CVS created a hidden directory, .settings, in the project workspace that is owned by root and not world-writable. Changing the permissions fixed the problem.

I remember playing with an early version with VxWorks back in the mid-1990s.

As one open source practitioner put it some time ago, “Think free speech, not free beer.”