Language C for the HPC Jornada 720?

I made some progress in running Windows C programs with
the help of PocketGCC v1.50 on my 7inch Mini netbook(s)
with wm8505 or w8650 SoC under WinCE6 or WinEC7.

First an easy one from Charles Petzolds source program collections
which can be downloaded from his Website.



Somewhat more work and tricks have to be done to get the menu running.
What is a "bad" bruise just now is this text "Start" on the menu... I have
not the faintest idea why it appears ( but not on the sample program
delivered with gcc ) - perhaps some missing #define somewhere... (???)

Let me add the link to my hopefully growing gallery of meanwhile
running Windows C programs compiled with old but quite usable
PocketGCC v1.5 :

Gallery of modified programs of Petzold and Boling

Very cool!

I'd clearly not realised that there was a native GCC for it, but does it have a Windows CE compiler or is it strictly desktop only?

Boling is the author of the Programming C for Windows CE book isn't he?

Do you have any idea if the runtimes will work against HPC2000, 2.11? 2.00?

1. What do you mean by "Windows CE compiler" ? The PocketGCC v 1.5 runs on my Windows CE
device - no cross-compiler on a desktop...
Only the menus are on the bottom of the screen ( probably a lib is missing to be able to have
also menus at the top ??? )
2. In a whim I already ordered the book(s) of Boling - seems to be deep stuff.
Very elegant programming style/methods in my view.
3. Sorry : I am not informed very well about HPCs ( whatever this means... ).
But I remember that I have some HPC2000 apps running on my device ( with ARM 9 armv5
processor ).

If you want to try I could try to offer some .exe which I modified/adapted as a download from my website.

The documentation at the sourceforge site seems to suggest that it is a cross compiler. I just wanted to confirm that it does actually compile on CE. Does it support MAKE and the CE command prompt correctly?

The menu's at the bottom mean that the comctrl version was designed for Gryphon (Pocket PC) rather than for the Explorer shell of Windows CE.

You're using CE 6.0x and 7.00. I'm wondering if the runtimes will work under CE 2.00, 2.11 and 3.00 as these are below the Pocket PC standard runtime verison (4.x).

There is no MAKE as far as I see right now. There are some sample .bat files
which can be accomodated and run from the cmd program command line.

In the LIB dir is no com(m)ctrl.lib file or something of that sort. Perhaps also .h files not available.

Here I offer the download of a .zip file with 4 compiled .exe to test on your device : Download from wkt Website

Edited by wkt 2013-01-09 5:45 PM

I'm currently without any downlevel devices. Anyone?

The link is dead already - I'm getting a "Not Found" error page.

Sorry,

my server is only online from about 15:00h-20:00h GMT+1 time...

The rest of my time i spend of course with Windows CE and the Apache
server thereon offers only an emergency website...