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Software development/proving
A supported platform for the Raspberry is Qt, which is already being worked on. C/C++
is supported through a gcc cross-compiling toolchain. On Debian/Ubuntu systems, the
packages gcc-4.6-arm-linux-gnueabi and g++-4.6-arm-linux-gnueabi provide suitable
compilers. For other build platforms, Chris has good instructions for building a crosscompiler(http://www.bootc.net/archives/2012/05/26/how-to-build-a-cross-compiler-foryour-raspberry-pi/#comment-22483)
- this should also work in a Cygwin environment on
Windows. MinGW may also be supported.
Python is being pushed forward by the foundation. (Status ??)
After compiling, using QEMU and a Linux VM would be one way of testing your apps
(this also works on Windows). Search the forum for the ready-made ARM images.
The choice of programming languages, IDEs and other tools on the R-Pi is only
determined by:
1) The operating system compatibility (at the moment the specific Linux distro used)
2) The status of the respective ARM package repositories and their binary compatibility
3) The possibilty to build other software + its dependencies for the R-Pi from sources
(depends on C cross-compiler ???)
What kind of software development and testing loop has been proven effective please
(from someone who's been there and done it)?
For me (and others, hopefully) that would be very useful.
Further reading
The main Raspberry Pi resources are:
▪ Raspberry Pi Foundation-maintained Raspberry Pi home (http://raspberrypi.org/)
▪ Raspberry Pi Foundation-maintained Raspberry Pi Forum (http://raspberrypi.org/
phpBB3)
▪ Community-maintained eLinux wiki (see wiki article overview for a list of
existing articles)