WindowsForDevices: Porting GCC and Binutils to Windows CE | Linux Today

WindowsForDevices: Porting GCC and Binutils to Windows CE

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 21, 2003

“Earlier this year, Vitaliy Pronkin, a young Russian programmer,
launched a project to port the open source GCC C/C++ compiler and
supporting tools (library, manager, linker, etc.) to Windows CE and
the Pocket PC platform. The result, according to Vitaliy, is that
it is now possible to develop applications directly on a Pocket PC
PDA using the standard C/C++ programming language. Specifically,
source code written in eVC (MFC isn’t supported yet) can be built
and then executed directly on the Pocket PC (or other Windows CE
device) without conversion or additional runtimes, he says.

“To learn more about this interesting project,
WindowsForDevices.com conducted an email interview with Vitaliy
Pronkin regarding his GCC/binutils port to Pocket PC and Windows
CE…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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