Chapter 11. The eCos Toolset

This chapter begins by looking at the structure of packages in the eCos repository, including a brief description of the CDL used for package script files. We then look at the graphical Configuration Tool used to customize and build the eCos library, and then build and run tests on your target platform.

Finally, we look into the other eCos tools and additional open-source tools to aid in our embedded software development. These additional open source tools allow us to set up a complete software embedded development environment at no cost. This chapter prepares us for building the eCos library with the tools provided in the eCos development kit. Using this information, we can then build an example application, which is covered in the next chapter, and run it on our target hardware platform.