[ELDK] Using ELDK 4.1 on Mac OSX

[Amichay Oren]

Dear Wolfgang,

My Mac is running FreeBSD on an Intel processor, I downloaded the ARM ISO
for x86, however the 'install' does not run. I am wondering if anyone
encountered this before... I could install a virtual machine and install
Linux on top of it, but logic dictates that I'll return to the same
situation ...? 

The reason I'm using v4.1 is that it was recommended by the hardware
provider (which also supplied additional libraries).

Any assistance is highly welcome...

Kind Regards,
Amichay


On 11/8/11 2:05 PM, "Wolfgang Denk" <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> Dear Amichay Oren,
> 
> In message <CADEC956.21C1E%amichay at getappcard.com> you wrote:
>> 
>> I¹m a newbie to ELDK, and need to develop software piece for a payment
>> terminal running on ARM platform. I am wondering if anyone has experience in
>> working with ELDK 4.1 on a Mac OSX, and what are the required development
>> environment setup steps?
> 
> One of the big advantages of using Linxu as OS for embedded systems
> is that you can have the _same_ OS running on the host and the
> target. Chosing any other host OS means you lose more or less of this
> advantage.  Can you actually run Linux x86 binaries under Mac OSX?
> 
> The second question is why you would start with a 5 year old version?
> Why not using ELDK 5.0 (or 5.1 beta) instead?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk