What do we need:

• QEMU ARM Emulator (download binaries from ​http://www.qemu.org)
• GNU ARM toolchain (download binaries from ​http://www.gnuarm.com/)
• Linux kernel source (download from ​http://www.kernel.org)

Setting up Development Environment

QEMU ARM Emulator Installation

TBD.

Colinux Installation

Download, Install, Run

Create a Disk for ARM Development

1. Create 3GB blank file with Cygwin:

    # under cygwin!
    $ cd /cygdrive/path/to/colinux
    $ dd if=/dev/zero of=disk_armdev bs=1k count=3000000
   

   (note: the above count is three million).
2. Stop Colinux:

    # from colinux:
    $ shutdown -h now
   

3. Edit your configuration:

    cobd3=f:\colinux\disk_armdev
   

4. Restart colinux:

    net start colinux
   

5. Format and mount the new disk:

    # In colinux:
    $ mkfs -t ext3 /dev/cobd3
    $ mkdir /arm
    $ mount /dev/cobd3 /arm
   

Directory Structure

 /arm
 /arm/setup
 /arm/setup/download
 /arm/setup/src
 /arm/setup/obj

GNU ARM Toolchain Installation

Binutils

Download and unpack:

  $ mkdir -p /arm/setup/download
  $ cd /arm/setup/download
  $ wget http://www.gnuarm.com/bu-2.15_gcc-3.4.3-c-c++-java_nl-1.12.0_gi-6.1.tar.bz2
  $ tar xjf bu-2.15_gcc-3.4.3-c-c++-java_nl-1.12.0_gi-6.1.tar.bz2 -C /arm

Glibc

Download and unpack:

  $ cd /arm/setup/download
  $ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.7.tar.gz
  $ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-linuxthreads-2.5.tar.bz2
  $ tar xzf glibc-2.7.tar.gz -C /arm/setup/work
  $ tar xjf glibc-linuxthreads-2.5.tar.bz2 -C /arm/setup/work/glibc-2.7/

Build:

 $ mkdir -p /arm/setup/obj/glibc-2.7
 $ cd /arm/setup/obj/glibc-2.7
 $ 

Newlib

Download:

 $ cd /arm/src
 $ cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/src login
   (type anoncvs as password)
 $ cvs -z 9 -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/src co newlib
 $ mv src newlib
 $