Chapter 4

The host development environment

Abstract

Chapter 4 introduces the host development environment, including some of the tools that we will use to develop applications for our embedded target. We install some software off the target board DVD. A number of configuration parameters must be changed, primarily in the area of networking and a terminal emulator program, minicom. The operation and configuration of the Network File System and Trivial File Transfer Protocol are described.

Keywords

GNU tool chain; minicom; network file system; trivial file transfer protocol; GCC; GDB; Make

When you say “I wrote a program that crashed Windows”, people just stare at you blankly and say “Hey, I got those with the system, for free”.

Linus Torvalds

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