Using Windows CE and Visual Studio 2008

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Hi,
I'll be getting a BB pretty soon and I was wondering if anyone had any
success with using Visual Studio 2008 to code stuff for the BB, since
VS supports WinCE devices. If anyone has been able to do this, could
you point me to the resources you used. I'm a complete newbie and
would greatly appreciate any help.

Thanks,
SM

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sm1810 <sm1810@gmail.com> writes:

Hi,
I'll be getting a BB pretty soon and I was wondering if anyone had any
success with using Visual Studio 2008 to code stuff for the BB, since
VS supports WinCE devices. If anyone has been able to do this, could
you point me to the resources you used. I'm a complete newbie and
would greatly appreciate any help.

It has allegedly been done, but not, I imagine, without a great deal
of pain. Bear in mind, that no released version of wince/msvc
supports NEON code, so you'd be losing out on much of the good stuff.

My advice is to stick with Linux.

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Bsquare’s current WinCE port does support NEON instructions in a limited fashion. We will also be supporting NEON in upcoming release featuring CE7.0. WinCE is a great solution!

Kevin

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Will you be supporting both NEON and VFP? Inlined, not as an emulation lib?

regards,

Koen

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Kevin Hasley <kevinhasley@hotmail.com> writes:

sm1810 <sm1810@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
> I'll be getting a BB pretty soon and I was wondering if anyone had any
> success with using Visual Studio 2008 to code stuff for the BB, since
> VS supports WinCE devices. If anyone has been able to do this, could
> you point me to the resources you used. I'm a complete newbie and
> would greatly appreciate any help.

It has allegedly been done, but not, I imagine, without a great deal
of pain. Bear in mind, that no released version of wince/msvc
supports NEON code, so you'd be losing out on much of the good stuff.

My advice is to stick with Linux.

Bsquare's current WinCE port does support NEON instructions in a
limited fashion.

If you manage to compile the code, presumably with a GNU
compiler/assembler, you can run it provided you only use half of the
registers and execute a VFPv2 instruction first to kick the kernel
into enabling the NEON/VFP unit. That's not what I call "supported".

We will also be supporting NEON in upcoming release featuring CE7.0.

Yes, I have been told the next release of wince will support NEON.

WinCE is a great solution!

No, it is not. It's probably great for companies in the business of
selling "support" to unsuspecting clients, but for anyone who has to
touch the stinking mess, it's a pure nightmare.

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Thank you

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hi, I am new to BB. I am using BB ai-64.
Can you tell me how can I use VS code in BB ai-64, for Linux of course?

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Best solution would be to get current tools.

netbeans 19 is easy to configure to do remote builds. That means no messing around with libraries and toolchains. You will need to install the tools directly onto the BBB or build a yocto image with the tools already included. Sorry, not what you asking for however I am assuming you want to be successful and productive with your bbb.

Update:
Just realized this is a very old thread.

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