(Free) Development Systems for WinCE

Hello All,

First time post hope this is not too much of a dim question.

Are there available any free (as in beer or speech) developement systems / IDEs for the older versions of Windows CE (Professional and 2000) ?

I've tried searching around Microsoft's web site but everything they have seems to suggest that older versions of windows ce never existed and were not anything to do with them.

If not, what are the basic options available to the individual.

Douglas

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Hi there and welcome to the forums.

You can get the necessaries from:
http://www.hpcfactor.com/developer/

You need eVT and the SDK for HPC2000. The Pro one comes in the eVT 3 Original release.

Are they paralell installable ? and what precisely does it give me ?

I'm used to doing things on linux. The only reason I am looking at WIndows CE it that fact that none of the ROMs I have on my machines seem to be flashable, so thank you for any help

Douglas
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You can have as many compatible SDK's installed into eVT as you like, you just need to choose the project on launch.

The Pro SDK has an emulator - the HPC2000 doesn't unfortunatly.
eVT gives you the Visual Basic, Visual C++ (API and MFC) workspaces for each platform. As well as API documentation and platform specific code libraries & code samples.

eVT currently gives me nothing as the link seems to be dead. The microsoft site only links to the updated ( and useless to me) 2002 edition.

*shakes fists*

Any other pptions ?

Douglas

The EVT 2002 version works fine with the HPC2000 SDK. But for HPC Professional, you must find the original release of EVT 3.0.

You can play with GCC and other GNU stuff too:

http://mamaich.kasone.com/fr_pocket.htm

You can use that with Windows and cygwin. I've been trying for ages to build a arm-wince-pe cross compiler on linux, but it never works...

Regards,
Claudio Neves

I only checked the link a couple of weeks ago >_<
I've corrected it with a new one.

I found what I think is the right link by searching very thoroughly on the USEnet. Thank you for all your help. I needed the HPC Pro capability as I have two machines. One HPC Pro and one HPC 2000.

*shakes head at shame of using microsoft tool*

If any of my linux chums see me here I'm a dead man

Douglas

I seem to need a license key. I can't see mention of th GPL anywhere !

hehe ... don't worry, you are safe with us here!

You can get the web release CD key here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=F663BF48-3...

Since when do Microsoft subscribe to GPL

There is an 'unofficial' Java VM for (on) Windows CE at:
http://www.ewesoft.com/
If you're interested. I tried on my 133mhz Mobile Gear, but it was quite slow. They have a browser as a sample program. I think it was about 2.5MB file download to the H/PC.

Alright ... I'm on that right away ... any browser is worth sampling. We might just get lucky and be able to run javascripts on websites proper!!!