[Rock-dev] Weekly report

[Sylvain Joyeux]

On 08/10/2011 10:24 PM, Anita wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Here it is a summary of the things I've been working this week:
>
> I made a cross compiler (with support for c and c++) for x86 RTEMS. This
> was needed since the gcc used to generate binaries with RTEMS, even for
> x86 targets, can not make use of libraries like glibc, instead newlib (a
> small libc for embedded systems) needs to be used.
>
> Then, I started to add RTEMS support in Rock/RTT. I compiled Xerces and
> adapted the compilation systems of Boost and OmniORB to make used of the
> cross compiler. I still need to do it in a clean and automatic way but,
> for now it's working and generating all the neeeded libraries using the
> x86 cross compiler.
>
> The previous steps have been sucesfully implemented and at this moment I
> am already translating orocos system calls to RTEMS. For this, I'm using
> the existing GNU Linux RTT implementation as a reference since RTEMS
> provides nearly all the POSIX services. Not all of them though, so the
> translation is not always straight forward and some adaptation is needed.
>
> So far, I'm optimistic with the initial RTEMS x86 port deadline.

Thanks for the status update. This sounds promising !

If you don't mind, I would suggest that you send these updates to 
rock-dev at dfki.de. I'm pretty sure that other members of the rock team 
would be glad to know about your progress ;-)

Sylvain