PPC Development Question

[davebach172]

Hi!

I've just placed my order for my Axim and cant wait the 2 weeks till it arrives!

I'm a convert from a Palm way of life - the time came to upgrade and it came down to a choice between the Tungsten-T or the Axim. hmmmmmm. tough one there!

Now that its on the way, I'd like to get up to speed on how to develop for it - so my question (finally!) is what do I need in terms of software to develop for the PPC platform?

Thanks in advance!

db

[RommelS]

I'm sure there are other developing software available out there, but the first thing that comes to mind is Visual CE by Syware.

[JSnoddy]

Actually the first place to start is with Microsoft's eMbedded Visual Tools. You can download C++ and eMbedded Visual BASIC, plus the requisite SDKs all in a single 300MB download. Here's the link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/defaul...ompositedoc.xml

[RommelS]

Thanks JSnoddy. Come to think of it, I do have the Microsoft's eMbedded Visual Tools in my computer ...somewhere in my computer. ^_^

[gsterin]

.NET compact framework should be available in 3 days :P

[JTMoney]

The embedded Visual Tools is all you need? I find that kind of hard to believe, considering that things like Visual Studio .NET and Visual C++ 6 cost hundreds of dollars.

I'll download it just the same, but can you clarify that it is 100% complete? There are several other options in the menu on that URL for other development packages. Can you post a brief synopsis of the differences between them? I'm an open source guy, I have no idea what all the various Microsoft development tools are, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them weren't essentially the same thing but repackaged for sale to different price points.

JT$

[JSnoddy]

The only thing I've done with the tools is create a little "Hello World" app. I've had my Axim for less than a week, so I'm just starting to play. I downloaded the eMbedded Visual Tools, which included the C++ and eMbedded VB tools. I had to do a seperate install for the Pocket PC SDK, which I found on disk2 (when you execute the download EXE, it creates two subfolders: disk1 and disk2).

When I created my little APP, I ran it using emulator that's part of the development environment. Did not export it to my Axim.

It certainly appears that everything you need to develop Pocket PC applications is there. Whether the Axim is fully supported or not, I won't know for a few days. I did not see support for the Intel xScale processor. Just SH3, MIPS, and ARM.

[JTMoney]

Cool! Thanks for the info.

JT$

[genocyde]

Originally posted by JSnoddy@Feb 6 2003, 02:00 PM
The only thing I've done with the tools is create a little "Hello World" app. I've had my Axim for less than a week, so I'm just starting to play. I downloaded the eMbedded Visual Tools, which included the C++ and eMbedded VB tools. I had to do a seperate install for the Pocket PC SDK, which I found on disk2 (when you execute the download EXE, it creates two subfolders: disk1 and disk2).

When I created my little APP, I ran it using emulator that's part of the development environment. Did not export it to my Axim.

It certainly appears that everything you need to develop Pocket PC applications is there. Whether the Axim is fully supported or not, I won't know for a few days. I did not see support for the Intel xScale processor. Just SH3, MIPS, and ARM.

If the Arm is included in the SDK it will compile, the XScale is an upgraded version of the Arm Processor. So it will work, just make sure to compile in Arm.

gEnOcyDE :P

[JTMoney]

Thanks for the tip.