lecture 34 -- palm dev tools intro

** I HANDED OUT AN EXCERPT FROM LONNON FOSTER'S BOOK -- SEE ME IF YOU
DIDN'T GET ONE **


1st choice:  IDE or cmdline?

IDE is PODS palm OS development, based on IBM/Eclipse + gcc/prc
tools.  Windows only, includes Cygwin/gcc stuff.

cmdline avail for Cygwin (via PODS), or PRC-tools for Unix / Mac OS X.


2nd choice:  simulator or HW?

-latest palm sim is in PODS as a Windows exe
-earlier sims called POSE, available from Palm

in 306, we have 8 setups with Tungsten T2s and 1 Tungsten C.  these
run Palm OS 5.2.x.


Palm OS Release history

Cobalt -- no HW yet

Garnet -- unified 5.4 release.

v5 -- first to support ARM via PACE layer.  system calls are native,
other code is emulated 68k

v4 and earlier -- 68k Motorola "dragonball" CPU.


work with Lonnon Foster's Hello World 2 code.

for gcc, simply type "make" to build.  application 4-char ID is in
Makefile. 

for PODS, chooose "managed make 68k C/C++" option.  don't use PNO
(palm native objects with 68k code) or Protein (ARM only) since we
don't care about ARM code.

"managed make" tells the IDE to build the Makefile for you.


Also, we looked at the cmd-line object resource compiler for turning
BMP images into Palm resource objects.  There are GUI tools in PODS
for managing images.